Patriotism: An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, 28 June, 1900W.B. Clarke, 1900 - 23 страница |
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Страница 21 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Страница 13 - That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh, servile offspring of the free ! Pronounce what sea, what shore is this ? The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch...
Страница 13 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave...
Страница 13 - Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendor to disgrace: Enough, — no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself it fell; Yes! self-abasement paved the way To villain-bonds and despot sway.
Страница 24 - ... just crushed, when the islands began to find that protection meant subjection. They could not bear to think that they had only changed masters, even if Aristides himself assigned their tribute; and some revolted. The rebellion was cut down, Athens went on expanding, she made her subject islands pay money instead of ships, she transferred the treasury to her own citadel; she spent the money of her allies in those marvellous adornments that have made her the crown of beauty for the world forever....
Страница 21 - Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. " The warrior's name should be a name abhorred, And every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother ; on its forehead Should bear forevermore the curse of Cain." Brethren, if there is anything of which philosophy must say it is wrong that thing is war. I do not mean any particular school of philosophy, ancient or modern. But I mean, if any one studies the nature of God and man in the light of history,...
Страница 23 - The track of every practicing physician is marked by heroic disregard of life that Napoleon's Old Guard might envy. Every fire like that of Chicago, every flood like that of Johnstown, every plague and famine like that of India, are fields carpeted with the flowers of heroic self-sacrifice : they spring up from the very graves and ashes. And these flowers do not have...
Страница 21 - Rome ; honor, the invention of the Gothic barbarians, which more than any other one thing has reduced poor Spain to her present low estate. There was a time when individual men talked about their honor and stood up to be stabbed and shot at, whether right or wrong, to vindicate it. That infernal fiction, the honor of the duel, was on the point, sixty years ago, of drawing Macaulay into the field in defence of a few sarcastic paragraphs in a review which he admitted himself were not to be justified....
Страница 19 - Patriotism demands that we should always stand by our country as against every other. And what are the patriots in our rival country to be doing the while ? Are they to support the war against us, whether they think it right or wrong? Are they cheerfully to pay all taxes ? Are they to volunteer for every battle ? Are they to carry on war to the knife or the last ditch ? Is their love for their country to be as unreasoning, as purely a matter of emotion, as ours ? Certainly, if the doctrine of indiscriminate...
Страница 23 - Now, if this precious doctrine be true, it utterly annihilates the old notion of patriotism and love of country ; for that notion called upon every nation, however small or weak or backward, to maintain to the death its independence against any other, however great or strong or progressive. According to this Mohammedan doctrine, this