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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Biographical sketch of Wendell Phillips . (search)
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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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