Every jail is a monument on which is writ in letters of iron that we are still heathens.

The gallows, black and hideous, lifts its arm, a sign of our infamy, an index of our shame.

up.

Shall justice fail and perish out of the world of men?

Shall wrong continually endure?

Injustice cannot stand. No armies, no alliance, can hold it

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

III

Justice is the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

But the ideal must become actual, God's thought a human thing.

You and I can help forward the work.

We may prepare the way for the republic of righteousness, the democracy of justice that is to come.

God will not disdain to use our prayers, our self-denial, and the little atoms of justice that personally belong to us, to establish his mighty work—the development of mankind.

All the justice we mature shall bless us here; and at our death, we leave it added to the common store of humankind.

IV

Men and women, the duties of the world are on you.

God confides to our hands the ark which holds the treasure of the ages.

THE SOUL'S HORIZON

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

God is in all that liberates and lifts;

In all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

1

A mystery of purpose gleaming through the secular confusions of the world,

Whose will we darkly accomplish, doing ours.

Sometimes at waking, in the street sometimes, or on the hillside, always unforewarned,

Man sees a grace of being finer than himself, that beckons and is gone.

O Power, more near my life than life itself,

Or what seems life to us in sense immured,

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive of sunshine and wide air and winged things, by sympathy of nature,

So do I have evidence of Thee so far above, yet in and of me.

II

Great truths are portions of the soul of man.

Great souls are portions of eternity.

Wherever any soul hath lived and died, there hath been something for true freedom wrought,

Some bulwark levelled on the evil side.

1 Reprinted by permission of James Russell Lowell's publishers, Houghton Mifflin Co.

The hope of Truth grows stronger day by day, and every hour new signs of promise tell.

Wider the soul's horizon hourly grows, and over it with fuller glory flows the sky-like spirit of God.

A hope begun in doubt and darkness, beneath a fairer sun cometh to fruitage, if it be of Truth.

And to the law of meekness, faith and love, by inward sympathy, shall all be won.

For through his soul who earnestly believeth, life from the universal Heart doth flow,

Whereby some conquest of eternal woe, by instinct of God's nature, is achieved;

And he more keenly feels the glorious duty of serving Truth, despised and crucified.

Happy, unknowing sect or creed, to feel God flow forever through his breast.

III

We are not free, whose Freedom doth consist in musing with our faces toward the Past.

Freedom is recreated year by year, in hearts wide-open to the Godward side,

In souls calm-cadenced as the whirling sphere,

In minds that sway the Future like a tide.

No broadest creeds, nor codes, can Freedom hold.

She chooses men for her abodes, building them fair and fronting to the dawn.

For as the finder of some unknown realm, mounting a summit whence he thinks to see on either side the imprisoning (ocean),

Beholds peak after snowy peak, stretch out of sight,

Each like a silver helm, beneath its plume of smoke,

And what he thought an island, finds to be a continent, to him first opened,

So we, from our height of Freedom, can look along a boundless Future,

Ours, if we be strong.

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE1

HENRY GEORGE

I

Liberty is a word to conjure with, not to vex the ear in empty boastings;

For Liberty means Justice, and Justice is the natural law the law of health and strength, of fraternity and co-operation.

II

As the sun is the lord of life, as his beams support all growth, and call forth all the infinite diversities of being and beauty, so is Liberty to mankind.

It is not for an abstraction that in every age the witnesses of Liberty have stood forth, and the martyrs of Liberty suffered.

We speak of Liberty as one thing, and of virtue, wealth, knowledge, national strength and national independence as other things.

But of all these Liberty is the source, the mother, the necessary condition.

She is to virtue what light is to colour;

She is to wealth what sunshine is to grain;

She is to knowledge what eyes are to sight;

She is the genius of invention, the brawn of national strength, the spirit of national independence.

Where Liberty rises, there virtue grows, wealth increases, knowledge expands, and in strength and spirit the freer nation rises among her neighbours as Saul amid his brethren.

1 Reprinted by permission of Henry George's publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., from "Progress and Poverty."