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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Review of Dr. Crosby 's Calm view of Temperance (1881 ). (search)
Review of Dr. Crosby's Calm view of Temperance (1881).
An Address before the Association of the Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Tremont Temple, Boston, January 24, 1881.
This is the only address in this volume which was read from manuscript, and probably the only one Mr. Phillips ever delivered in that manner.
I am to offer you some remarks on a lecture delivered here a fortnight ago by Chancellor Crosby.
He denounced the Temperance movement as now conducted.
The addr on lived, as it did in 1806, with no steam fire-engine,--only leather buckets hanging in each man's front entry,--cheerfully would I stand with Dr. Crosby and a hundred more to pass buckets of water up to the firemen on a burning building.
But in 1881, I should not obstruct the engine, and crowd it out of its place, merely that Dr. Crosby and I might have a chance harmoniously to unite in passing empty buckets toward the flames.
Life is too short for such false courtesies; too short for us to
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881 ). (search)
The scholar in a republic (1881).
Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, June 30, 1881.
None of Mr. Phillips's literary addresses is more characteristic than this, and in none are there more passages parallel with his earlier utterances.
His first address before a strictly academic audience was given at the Commencement of Williams College in 1852, before the Adelphi Society.
His subject, says a contemporary report, was the Duty of a Christian Scholar in a Republic.
The morale of the address was this: that the Christian scholar should utter truth, and labor for right and God, though parties and creeds and institutions and constitutions might be damaged.
His whole address was in the spirit of that sentence of Emerson: I am an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
In 1855 Mr. Phillips spoke at the Commencement at Dartmouth College, before the United Literary Societies upon the Duties of Thoughtful Men to the Republic.
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