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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
estions which our age can comprehend: one of these is universal peace. The last age could not comprehend it; the time had not come. I hope that the American clergy, and particularly those in whose preaching I am most interested, will never lose an opportunity to commend it. In the summer of 1847 Sumner delivered an oration at Amherst College, and later at Brown University, on Fame and Glory. Works, vol. II. pp. 1-54. Longfellow refers to the praise of the oration in his letter, Aug. 14, 1847,—Life, vol. III. p. 20. After hearing it as a lecture before the Cambridge Lyceum, he wrote in his journal, Oct. 21, 1847: A crowded, attentive audience, and a very charming discourse. He [Sumner] passed the night with us; and Felton came up. In tone and sentiment it followed fitly his Fourth of July oration. It assails the common judgment of mankind which awards the highest fame to success in war, questions the love of applause as a motive of conduct except as directed by sentiments