The Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism, 1890
An Address Delivered at the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, in the Slater Memorial Hall of the Free Academy at Norwich Connecticut, July 8, 1890 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism, 1890: An Address Delivered at the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, in the Slater Memorial Hall of the Free Academy at Norwich Connecticut, July 8, 1890<br><br>It is twenty-one years ago this month that the convention assembled at Poughkeepsie which organized the American Philological Association. We may congratulate ourselves, accordingly, that we as a society are no longer minors, - that we have now attained our majority. Our youth has been vigorous and fruitful. That we should praise the men who have made it so, is not fitting; for most of them, happily, are still living. Their activity and devotion to the interests of the Association are witnessed by a stately row of published volumes of Transactions, - the twentieth of which, along with an index of contributors and an index of subjects covering the whole series, was issued last March. The prospects for our continued fruitfulness and vigor were never brighter.<br><br>We should be, and I believe that we are, conscious of our manhood and power, of the importance and dignity of our calling. The duty which the scholar as a citizen owes to the state is one of the most frequent themes of the day; but the duties which we owe to society and the body politic as philologists and public teachers may also well engage for a moment our reflection at this beginning of our new year.<br><br>We stand here as the representatives of one of those useless things which it is the true province of a university to teach.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.