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Europe (search for this): chapter 12
which America was returning to the family of European nations from the exile which her connection w to analyze America nor define her relation to Europe. I will only point out our most dreadful defenited States to-day. If you start anywhere in Europe and trace your way back to ancient Egypt, you continuity. There has been no real break in European culture. During the dark ages the most visibcowed the world. That element has endured in European education in the form of a reverence for the fall into casual conversation with almost any European, you will feel the influence of these vistas bleakness of American life as contrasted with European life. I think that the emotions must in youtbarbarian than his Gothic ancestor who invaded Europe in the fourth century A. D., and whose magnifirgotten among us; much is unknown that in any European country would be familiar. For instance, thpe of character is very rare. Had he lived in Europe he would have been classified at once among th[1 more...]
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 12
e the surface of social and political life in America, like a great golden serpent,--a mysterious a historic focus. If then we look about us in America to-day, having in our minds some reminiscenceso much concern to all intelligent persons in America, does not indicate death. It is due to two cce more upon the discouraging side of life in America — on the decay of learning. From an externbe very simply seen as the epoch during which America was returning to the family of European natiory. Such great wealth as has been created in America since 1865 would have hardened the eyes of ann it. We have indeed been born to calamity in America, and our miseries have come thickly upon us. wn in the unwillingness of the average man in America to go to the bottom of any subject, his menta truth; and when, as at the present moment in America, we have commerce dominant in an era whose ch thereafter as a national possession. But in America all that the educated man of to-day knows of
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ometimes causes me to remember that Slavery was always Commerce, and that Commerce is to some extent always Slavery. Such great wealth as has been created in America since 1865 would have hardened the eyes of any generation that looked on it. We have indeed been born to calamity in America, and our miseries have come thickly upon us. If you will walk back across the whole history of the world, you will find that respect for learning has never before fallen so low as it has fallen in the United States to-day. If you start anywhere in Europe and trace your way back to ancient Egypt, you will find no age without its savants, its thinkers, men who know something of the past, living sometimes in caves and sometimes in drawingrooms, yet always, in a certain sense, the publicists of their times. These are the men through whom, to some extent, religion, education, and the traditions of spiritual life are transmitted from age to age. There have always been enough of such men in every age t
Saint Francis (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
also knew how to obey but could not explain. Our young people express by their conduct a more potent indictment of the cultivation and science of the older, dying epoch than could be written with the pen of Ezekiel. The age has nothing in it that satisfies them: they therefore turn away from it: they satisfy themselves elsewhere. In so doing they create a new age. The deeper needs of humanity can only be met slowly. It required several hundred years for the meaning and importance of St. Francis to become apparent. To his contemporaries he seemed to be a disciple sent to the poor; yet his influence ultimately qualified the art and letters, and tinged the philosophy of life of several centuries. All these new saints of ours.-new Christians, and loving persons who crowd the slums, and rediscover Christ in themselves and in others-lack power to explain; they merely exist. Through them, or rather through the heart which they infuse, literature and intellect will return, art and
Historians (search for this): chapter 12
The harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved. Jeremiah 8:20. The Anti-slavery epoch presents a perfect example of the rise, progress, and victory of a moral cause. This cause was so obvious, so inevitable, its roots were so deep in human nature and in history, that its victory was assured from the beginning. In studying it, all our wonder and all our attention may be reserved for the manner of its rise, the form of its advance, and the mode of its victory. Historians are apt to apportion praise and blame to the Abolitionists, to the Southern leaders, to the Republican Party, to the generals during the war, to the troops upon one side or the other in the terrible conflict. But such appraisements are either the aftermath of partisan feeling, or they are the judgments of men who have not realized the profundity and the complexity of the whole movement — the inevitability not only of the outcome, but of the process. That Garrison should have disapproved
William Lloyd Garrison (search for this): chapter 12
ofundity and the complexity of the whole movement — the inevitability not only of the outcome, but of the process. That Garrison should have disapproved of the entry of Abolition into party politics, and that he should have raved like a hen upon theny, are never conclusive, never important. We cannot know the truth about any of these things. No one can be sure that Garrison did not exert greater influence upon practical politics through his dogma of nonresistance than he could have done throuorgotten among us; much is unknown that in any European country would be familiar. For instance, this very man, William Lloyd Garrison, is almost forgotten among us. He lived a life of heroism and of practical achievement; the beauty of his whole cwould have been prized thereafter as a national possession. But in America all that the educated man of to-day knows of Garrison is that he was one who held impractical views and used over-strong language during the Anti-slavery struggle. All thi
Constitutional Law (search for this): chapter 12
tion for general education. In 1830, we found ourselves isolated and it took us thirty years of work to break down the barriers between ourselves and the modern world. The intellect and passion of the country was given up during this time to a terrible conflict between prophetic morality on the one hand and the unprofitable sophistries of law, politics and government on the other. Our attitude towards Europe was unintelligent; our experience in ideas (other than prophetic ethics and Constitutional Law) was nil. The consequence was that the American fell tremendously behind the European in general cultivation. Now the period after our return to social life — the period, namely, between 1865 and the present time — coincides with the rise of modern commerce, so that we no sooner got free from one enemy to the soul than we were fastened upon by another-and that other the half-brother and blood relation of the first. I will not try to analyze America nor define her relation to Europ
Christ (search for this): chapter 12
selves elsewhere. In so doing they create a new age. The deeper needs of humanity can only be met slowly. It required several hundred years for the meaning and importance of St. Francis to become apparent. To his contemporaries he seemed to be a disciple sent to the poor; yet his influence ultimately qualified the art and letters, and tinged the philosophy of life of several centuries. All these new saints of ours.-new Christians, and loving persons who crowd the slums, and rediscover Christ in themselves and in others-lack power to explain; they merely exist. Through them, or rather through the heart which they infuse, literature and intellect will return, art and mental vigor will be restored to us. It would seem that the bowels and viscera of society must be heated first, and thereafter in time — it may be a century or two--a warmer life will reach the mind. These new grubs that creep out of the ground, these golden bees that dart by us in the sunshine, going so directly to
Ezekiel (search for this): chapter 12
tors of these trained minds to the cause of learning? In their new career their old education goes apparently for nothing. They themselves cannot tell you. And yet they are justified. These young people are being governed by that higher law which governed St. Francis-the law which he also knew how to obey but could not explain. Our young people express by their conduct a more potent indictment of the cultivation and science of the older, dying epoch than could be written with the pen of Ezekiel. The age has nothing in it that satisfies them: they therefore turn away from it: they satisfy themselves elsewhere. In so doing they create a new age. The deeper needs of humanity can only be met slowly. It required several hundred years for the meaning and importance of St. Francis to become apparent. To his contemporaries he seemed to be a disciple sent to the poor; yet his influence ultimately qualified the art and letters, and tinged the philosophy of life of several centuries.
John C. Calhoun (search for this): chapter 12
ict. But such appraisements are either the aftermath of partisan feeling, or they are the judgments of men who have not realized the profundity and the complexity of the whole movement — the inevitability not only of the outcome, but of the process. That Garrison should have disapproved of the entry of Abolition into party politics, and that he should have raved like a hen upon the river bank when he saw the ducklings he had hatched rush into political waters; that the great intellect of Calhoun should have been driven forward by a suicidal logic into theories that were at war with the world's whole inheritance of truth; that Webster should have been now right, now wrong, or the Supreme Court now enlightened by a flickering compassion or again overshadowed by the Spirit of Crime;--such facts as these are parts of the great story, and can hardly be handled or sampled by themselves, hardly separated, even for a moment, from their context. The private judgments which we are tempted
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