Excerpt from Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches With Elucidations, Vol. 1 of 4 To Dryasdust, who wishes merely to compile torpedo His' tories of the philosophical or other sorts, and gain immortal laurels for himself bywriting about it and about it, all this is sport; but to us who struggle piously, passionately, to be hold, if butinglimpses, the faces of ourvanished Fathers, it is death! - O Dryasdust, my voluminous friend, had Human Stupidity continued in the diligent state, think you it had ever come to this? Surely at least you might have made an Index for these huge books! Even your genius, had you been faithful, was adequate to that. Those thirtythousand or fifty thousand old Newspapers and Pamphlets of the King's Library. 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.