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Excerpt from Memorials of Old Birmingham: Men and Names, Founders, Freeholders, and Indwellers, From the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century; With Particulars as to the Earliest Church of the Reformation Built and Endowed in England The science of to-day is founded on the science of yester day, and that of yesterday rests on earlier steps, each trodden in its day. And the science of to-day cannot be truly under stood except by tracing those earlier steps. Only the char latan pretends to a sudden revelation of new science. And it is the same with human society, in the complex forms of it that come before the eye in such an abode of activity as Birmingham. Peoples and towns have grown to what they are from what they have been they owe to the temper and spirit and energy, or the lack of these, moving the indwellers who have gone before them, the opportunity, or the lack of opportunity, that there now is, to show the temper and spirit and energy that live within themselves. There has been a past there has been a growth; there is yet more growth, or else decay, to come. What manner of men they were who lived in that past, what their habits were, and what were the institutions that they grew up among and took their part in, it concerns all to know who would hope that the to come shall be one of growth and not one of decay. He who would speak shame-facedly of his own town, or would seek to disavow what he and his fathers have owed to it, as a Place having a Pedigree, shows the absence of that moral sense and that tone of mind from which alone patriotism springs. 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.