Excerpt from Columbian Selections: American Patriotism, for Home and SchoolThe Introductory Symposium, including the fit tribute of Noah Webster, Washington Irving, Joel Barlow, and Robert C. Winthrop, gathers Opinions from the range of an entire century of men whose research and wisdom command veneration and respect. They have no savor of that modern agnosticism which denies a fair meed of honor to the heroes of the past because not contemporaneous with the critic, or draws so closely to the eye some single eccentricity or defect as to obscure the lustre of an entire life of usefulness and blessing.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.