Download or read book An Oration, Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1842 (Classic Reprint) written by Horace Mann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1842 But houses, lands, granaries, flocks, factories, warehouses, ships, banks, are only exterior possessions, -the out-works of individual ownership. When these are carried, the assault will be made upon personal security, character and life and, lastly, upon all the endearments and sanctities that cluster around the domes tic altar, - and when these are lost, humanity has nothing more to lose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.