Edward Everett Quotes


Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?


Citations

Everett, Edward. The Uses of Astronomy: An Oration Delivered at Albany, on the 28th of August, 1856. Ross & Tousey, 1856, p. 24.

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Edward Everett
Edward Everett
  • Born: April 11, 1794
  • Died: January 15, 1865
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician, Educator

Edward Everett was an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president.