History of La Porte County, Indiana; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Townships Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and ... Representative Citizens History of Indiana, - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1880. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION. , TENDENCY TO RETROSPECTION. There is a well-defined principle with men that the mind almost involuntarily lashes itself to the past with its most tenacious bonds. Especially is this true when it is connected with that part of life which is the " busy part" as was the case with the early pioneers of any country when they settled in the wilderness in order that they might make a home for themselves and their families. Those times of labor, privation, and of anxiety have indelibly imprinted themselves upon the memories of those who have participated in them, and it is nothing out of reason thatthey should often revert to them in their own musings and in their associations with those who have been participants with them, and that these scenes should be ealled up from their dwelling places in the past and made to do service in giving entertainment and enjoyment by their rehersal, and by the comparison of the experience of one with the experience of another. Following the lead of this principle, it is not very hard to discover that there is not an unreasonable tendency to retrospection with men, and this is especially marked in those who have spent a busy life and have passed beyond the period of constant activity: the scenes of the past will come up in their memories, and they love to tell them to those who with attentive ear hang upon the "well-told tales." It has not been very long, as all know, that the locality of which we write was a wilderness with no occupancy except by that of "wild vegetation, wild beasts and fowls, and of wild men." In the course of the "history of the ages," these things were to be conquered, and the condition of" wildness" was to be changed for the more desirable condition of civilization. This demanded a race of hardy ...

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