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Excerpt from An Inaugural Discourse, Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, 4th September, 1816: The 206th Anniversary of the Discovery of New-York
We live in a period so enlightened, that to dis play the use of History would be superfluous labour. It would be the mere repetition of what has already been expressed, by eminent authors, on various oc casions. They have told us that History is the science of human nature; philosophy teaching by example; the school of princes.
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