Excerpt from An Address to the Members of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society: Delivered March 1st, 1852 Some, then, are but collectors, while those who succeed them have their accumulations to use. How apparent in the science, if it may be so named, of Statistics is this truth-as well as in the accumulations of pecuniary wealth to be transmitted to legal heirs. And yet how minute and laborious the gathering of the facts how extensive the uses to which they may be applied. And I must add, that this collection of facts is far more laborious than is mere declamation. Yet the latter, plausible and enchanting though it sometimes be, is baseless without them and empty. 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.