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Excerpt from Address and Poem: Delivered Before the Columbia College Alumni Association, at Hope Chapel, October, 27, 1858 Let there be method in all our doings. If, as says the Hebrew Sage, there is a time for all things, youth is most certainly, the chosen time for the acquisition Of oral speech of whatever tongue. It is then that the organs of utter ance have their greatest flexibility; it is then that the Organs of hearing have their greatest susceptibility with a little care and a proper system a child in the first fifteen years of its existence will acquire French and German, and, if desired, Spanish or Italian, as easily as it does English, and as permanently. 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.