Excerpt from A Sketch and an Appreciation of Moncure Daniel Conway: Freethinker and Humanitarian; An Address at the Paine-Conway Memorial Meeting of the Manhattan Liberal Club, January 31, 1908 We see that Conway realized, what many radi cals forget, that the past, present and future are links in a chain that cannot be broken, and that forgetfulness of this brings in its train individual and social peril and catastrophe. The value of memorial meetings and papers consists far less in eulogies of dead leaders of thought and ac tion than in summaries of their principles and pic tures of their environment, with the record of their struggles to inculcate those principles and modify that environment. In a word, history before worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.