Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Birmingham Midland Institute: On the 30th September, 1867The answer to this question will prompt a further inquiry. Can we by reviewing in succession the impediments which for merly barred all attempts towards your present enterprise, and still remain in sufficient numbers and strength most materially to diminish your rate of progress, discover how they may be re moved from your path? And can we derive encouragement from adverting to your advantages for carrying on your undertaking?In' the hope of throwing on these questions some glimpses of light, however faint or dubious such light may prove, I have adopted the topics thus indicated for the subject of my Address.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.