Excerpt from The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell: Ex-President of the South Carolina College, Late Professor of Theology in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina Istory loves to trace the lineage' of those whose lives have been heroic. It seems to add grace to virtue when it descends from sire to son, And is successively, from blood to blood, The right of birth. 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.