Excerpt from An Oration, Pronounced at Middlebury, Before the Associated Alumni of the College, on the Evening of Commencement: August 17th, 1825 Mr. President, and Fellow Alumni, Man is a complex and mysterious being. He is composed of body and mind; and each of these may be subdivided into a multiplicity of distinct and constituent parts. The body has its several members, and the mind its various faculties or powers. The former, though reared and moulded by the hand of God, is derived from the earth; and changeable in its very materials and frail in its present structure, it is hardly less ding than the leaf of autumn. The latter is a spark of the Divinity - and claims kindred with the angels - and is the heir of an immortal existence. 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.