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Excerpt from Characteristics of the Age: A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of California, at the Opening of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention in Trinity Church, San Francisco, May 3rd, 1876 But time forbids that I should enter more fully into this historical review. I allude to it only to show that the human mind is prone to extremes, and external circum stances of course determine the direction it shall take. 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.