Excerpt from The Recollections of a Long Life Born and bred in the rural districts, living on a_farm among the common people, with only such religious and educational advantages as such environments aflbrded, and whatever of benefit, and there is much, that comes from being brought up in the country - these things affected his personal and mental habits through his entire life, and gave him some Of those peculiarities which continually cropped out in his writings and addresses and added to his power and influence. 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.