Most of the world would be surprised to know how few of our thoughts are really original with ourselves. What we write and say is, for the most part, a kind of mosaic interweaving of ideas and recollections gathered together out of other people’s talk or books. The combination and rearrangement of them is about all we can call our own. When a man does really evolve an original thought out of his own mind, it is the exception, rather than the rule. It is usually the fruit, either of patient study, or of fresh and vivid experience.
Digital Research
Digital Research
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Seward Family Scrap Book Collection1824 Scrap Book- Including Battle of Bunkerhill, past and current Native American relations. Seward Family: B. J. Seward’s remarks at the Mercantile Library Association, S. B. Seward’s remarks at the opening of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, death of Hector Seward at festivities for... |
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Alaska DocumentationAn informative pamphlet detailing William Henry Seward and the purchase of Alaska. |