2 NOTABLE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS OF

Excerpt from Two Notable Public Documents of General Castro, President of VenezuelaSeen from this distance of time, at a period when austere and forceful civil virtue is so rarely met with, the men who inaugurated and directed the revolutionary movement of 1811 appear indeed of more than ordinary estate.In contemplating and studying them and their work after this lapse of years, they appear to grow and increase in size and assume clearer outlines, not unlike the projections of the mountains at twi light and as the light of the new day that rises above the line of the horizon.They all were endowed with the qualities called for by the exigencies of their times.The ideas of liberty that at this period impregnated the minds of the people, like the generating pollen on wings of revolutions to fructify this globe, germinated in the souls of these men like the seed sown in deep and wide furrows. Creative and resourceful men, who, notwithstanding the adverse surroundings, and the reigning prejudices, gallantly entered the arena to battle for freedom, and at once astonished the world by their Olympic audacity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.