Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Hanover, N. H. May 7, 1841: On the Occasion of the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United StatesDeath is the great event of life. It is the common and inevitable lot. No creature is exempt from it. Every organized being, even to the unconscious tribes of the vegetable world, returns, by an irresistible law, to the dust out of which it was made.But of all the dwellers upon the earth, man alone is permitted to know this law, to him only it is given to think upon this universal fate, he alone anticipates his end. To other animals, the most sagacious and intelligent and endued with instincts, in some respects superior to reason itself, Death comes always unlocked for. The fear of it, and the idea of it, are the melancholy privilege of the most favored of God's earthly creatures.To him the event is never indifferent. To whatsoever living thing it comes, it wears a serious aspect, and awakens sad associations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.