Speech On the Bill for Establishing the Smithsonian Institution Delivered in the

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Speech On the Bill for Establishing the Smithsonian Institution Delivered in the
George Perkins Marsh
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How far are we from possessing a tolerably complete series of the English printed books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, or even of that best age of English learning, that age with whicli every honest American most truly . Sympathizes, the age 'of Cromwell and of Milton ? Would it not be well to -have at our command the means of enabling some diligent scholar to write jwhat has not yet been worthily written, or indeed scarce even attempted, a complete history of the literature of our A...nglo-Saxon mother tongue — or ta (perform that Herculean task, which, in spite of the vaunted but feeble la- ^bors of Webster, remains still to be accomplished, the preparation of a res- . Pectable Enghsh dictionary? : *j. If there is any department of learning, in which a library selected for the 11 use of the representatives of a democracy should be complete, it is that of history. But what have we of the sources of historical investigation ? //tV ^nes indeed we have, but little Awifory. True, we have Robertson, and Hume, and Voltaire, and Gibbon, and, above all, Alison, a popular writer in these days, and — " Like Sir Agrippa, for profound And solid lying, much renowned;" but of those materials from which true history is to be drawn, we have little, very little.

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