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An ORATION Delivered at the courthouse in Middle Bury, on the anniversary of the Philomathesian Society of Middlebury College; November 6, 1805 By Rollin C. Mallary versa for the "Speak of me as I am"--Sha. Middlebury, Vermont, Printed by huntington & Fitch Nov 1805 513 independant thinker 2271
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IN SOCIETY, Nov. 6th, 1805. RESOLVED, by the Philomathesian Society, That a Committee of three be appointed to wait on Rollin C. Mallary, orator of the day, and return him the thanks of the Society for his Oration--request a copy for the press, and superintend the printing the same. Resolved, That the brothers Andrus, Frost, and Hopkins, be the abovementioned Committee. Attest, ASA AKINS, Scribe protem. Gentlemen, I HAVE recieved your request,--I rely on your candor, and commit a copy of the Anniversary Oration to your disposal. Accept my thanks, in behalf of the Society, for their attention,--If the Oration has answered their wishes, my ambition is gratified. Your friend and brother, Rollin C. Mallary To the gentlemen of the Committee, Brothers J Frost, W. Andrus, D.J. Hopkins.
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An ORATION Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Society, If when you speak the truth, you say you lie, you lie; but you say you lie when you speak the truth--therefore, in speaking the truth, you lie. Upon this, Chrysippus wrote six volumes, and Philetas, by the close application he bestowed upon it, died of the consumption. In modern ages we hear of a man who spent eight years in rearing a breed of naked sheep; in extracting sunbeams from cucmbers, and in making a marble pincushion. Others have spent year after year in Herculean labors; and it is now confidently asserted that they can enumerate with mathmatical certainty every muscle of a flea; while their wonder-doing bretheren have discovered an unerring rule, by which they can ascertain the quantity of blood in every animalcule in the universe. MANY, with the wonderful sagacity, have disputed about the existance of matter, until alas! there was none to be found. Some have wandered about in metaphysical darkness until they have lost
