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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881). (search)
altpetre you would yourself have been a soldier. But Bacon says, In the theatre of man's life, God and his angels only should be lookers-on. Sin is not taken out of man as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. Very beautiful, says Richter, is the eagle when he floats with outstretched wings aloft in the clear blue; but sublime when he plunges down through the tempest to his eyry on the cliff, where his unfledged young ones dwell and are starving. Accept proudly the analysis of Fisher Ames: A monarchy is a man-of-war, stanch, iron-ribbed, and resistless when under full sail; yet a single hidden rock sends her to the bottom. Our republic is a raft hard to steer, and your feet always wet; but nothing can sink her. If the Alps, piled in cold and silence, be the emblem of despotism, we joyfully take the ever-restless ocean for ours,--only pure because never still. Journalism must have more self-respect. Now it praises good and bad men so indiscriminately that a good word