Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies, of the University of North Carolina, in Gerard Hall, on the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement, in June 1843: Under the Appointment of the Dialectic Society But it is to the developement of English mind, and the progress of English Literature, (which are our own) that I must confine myself. I can but glance at results and deal in generalities. And if the reign of the Tudors was cold, bloody and remorseless, we must remember that the sea was still working with the physical disorder, the moral and intellectual tempest, which had followed' the dead calm of the mediaeval ages, and so'ciety but beginning to be adjusted. The times perhaps required a hard and iron nature to rule and direct the movement, and it may have been to the firms. 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.