An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of the Town of Hingham: On the Twenty-Eighth of September, 1835, Being the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of the Town of Hingham: On the Twenty-Eighth of September, 1835, Being the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town

We can never entirely divest ourselves of a regard for ancestry. A curiosity to know more of the past is ever impelling the human mind to trace, either by the lights of history, or tradition, the connecting links which bind us to remote generations of men. This curiosity is excited to still greater activity by the influence of strong local attachments. Especially when it unfolds to us those traits of character which are ornamental to human nature, we cherish this appetite for what wears the charm of antiquity, as a guide to valuable instruction and the purest delight.

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