Excerpt from Remarks of Hon. R. S. Burrows and Address by Hon. Noah Davis: On the Occasion of the National Obsequies of President Lincoln, at Albion, N. Y., April 19, 1865An ancient philosophy thought it to be possible, that man's body might be trained to a perfection that could defy the assaults of disease and the encroachments of age, and his spirit to a purity that should lead it through a voluntary death to seek the society of the gods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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