John Lee

A Letter to the President of the U. States of America (Classic Reprint) John Lee

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from A Letter to the President of the U. States of America Sir: The conspicuous majesty of Science is now recognised from nation to nation, and from clime to clime, through the circuit of the habitable universe. From her intellectual throne she sways the destinies of men. In the remote and tranquil scenes of rural cultivation; in the busy throng of traffic and the ceaseless reverberating din which pervades the commercial cities; on the vast and solitary surface of the undulating deep; in the barriers of eternal polar ice, or the impenetrable silent horrors of subterrestrial gloom; through all the confines of the sublunary world, she claims ubiquity of empire. That portion of our being, which we inherit from divinity, has been, by the discipline of Science, developed in such magnificence of energy as clearly marks its origin; while the petty powers of our animal constitution have sunk to comparative nonentity. In the conflict of battle, and the agonizing shock of war, the achievements of corporeal prowess are behold no more; the mail-protected rank of heroes has dwindled into puny insignificance, before the vast machinery of destruction which Science has created and arrayed upon the martial field; she impels, with invisible and superhuman arm, the flame-winged missiles which annihilate legions, and crush the pride of castellated bulwarks with irresistible and ruinous prostration. 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. Contributor Bio:  Lee, John John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. An "AudioFile" Golden Voice narrator, he is the winner of numerous Audie Awards and "AudioFile" Earphones Awards.