Patriotism: An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, Commencement, 1900Peace association of Friends, 1900 - 23 страница |
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Страница 19 - 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 11 - Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain cave Was freedom's home or glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylse?
Страница 11 - 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 10 - ... rivals, he is right, a worthy patriot. And, if he seems lukewarm in her cause, if, however wise and good and accomplished he may be in all other relations, he fails to work with all his heart and soul to maintain her position among the nations, he must be stamped with failure, if not with curse. For the plain citizen, who does not claim to be a leader in peace or war, the duty is still clearer. He must stand by his country, according to what those who have her destiny in their control decide...
Страница 6 - ... words, themselves an echo of what the poets and orators whose heir he was had repeated again and again, have been re-echoed and reiterated in many ages since he bowed his neck to the sword of his country's enemy. But to give life for their country, is the least part of what. men have been willing to do for her. Human life has often seemed a very trifling possession to be exposed cheaply in all sorts of useless risks and feuds. It has been the cheerful sacrifice of the things that make life worth...
Страница 19 - 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 6 - ... a Socrates to walk through the streets and force them to define their terms ? And how many, if he did appear again, would be ready to kill him for corrupting the youth, and holding to a god different from those the country worships? Patriotism — love of country — devotion to the land that bore us — is pressed upon us now as paramount to every other notion in its claims on head, hand, and heart. It is pictured to us not merely as an amiable and inspiring emotion, but as a paramount duty...
Страница 3 - I DO not see how any one can rise on this occasion without trembling. It has been illustrated by too many distinguished names, it has brought forth too many striking sentiments, not to give every orator the certainty that he will fall short of its traditions and the fear that he will do so disastrously.
Страница 19 - 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 9 - ... wayward as Chatham ; he may be destitute of every spark of culture or may prostitute the gifts of the Muses to the basest ends ; he may have, in short, all manner of vices, crimes, or defects. But, if he is true to his country, if he is her faithful standard-bearer, if he strives to set and keep her high above her rivals, he is right, a worthy patriot. And, if he seems lukewarm in her cause, if, however wise and good and accomplished he may be in all other relations, he fails to work with all...