An Address Upon the Life And Services of Edward Everett Delivered Before the M
An Address Upon the Life And Services of Edward Everett Delivered Before the M
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He asked but a hearing, and no other re wards than that approbation, which I admit was dear to him, and fame, to which he had too much of genius to be indifferent.
He knew we held our treasure in earthen ves sels. He was no Utopian or sentimentalist. He had read and seen too much of the passions and weak nesses of men, not to know that our great experi ment might fail. He knew that the organization of millions into a State, permanent and benefi cent, was a result for human nature rarely obtaine...d, 31 ADDRESS.
dearly bought, precariously held, and, if lost, hardly regained.
Those who knew him slightly may have thought that he gave undue prominence to the subjects of his classical studies. Since his death, I have read the greater part of his published writings, and can truly say that I doubt if ever so good a scholar wrote and spoke so much, saying so little of the Greeks and Romans. He always declared that their civilization had one fatal defect, the lack of spiritual vitality. He reminded the scholars of the Phi Beta Kappa that the hero of Thermopylae would not have hesitated to tear his only child from the bosom of its mother, if it happened to be a sickly babe, and carry it out to be eaten by the wolves of Tayge- tus; that the heroes of Marathon unchained their slaves from the door-posts of their masters to go out and fight the battles of freedom.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He asked but a hearing, and no other re wards than that approbation, which I admit was dear to him, and fame, to which he had too much of genius to be indifferent.
He knew we held our treasure in earthen ves sels. He was no Utopian or sentimentalist. He had read and seen too much of the passions and weak nesses of men, not to know that our great experi ment might fail. He knew that the organization of millions into a State, permanent and benefi cent, was a result for human nature rarely obtaine...d, 31 ADDRESS.
dearly bought, precariously held, and, if lost, hardly regained.
Those who knew him slightly may have thought that he gave undue prominence to the subjects of his classical studies. Since his death, I have read the greater part of his published writings, and can truly say that I doubt if ever so good a scholar wrote and spoke so much, saying so little of the Greeks and Romans. He always declared that their civilization had one fatal defect, the lack of spiritual vitality. He reminded the scholars of the Phi Beta Kappa that the hero of Thermopylae would not have hesitated to tear his only child from the bosom of its mother, if it happened to be a sickly babe, and carry it out to be eaten by the wolves of Tayge- tus; that the heroes of Marathon unchained their slaves from the door-posts of their masters to go out and fight the battles of freedom.
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