The Fortune of the Republic, And Other Addresses Upon the America of To-Day And To-Morrow
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]N"or will the ideal man ever come until one rises up who, to the severe virtues of the Puritan adds the grace and sweetness of modern life, carrying his strength up to beauty, inflecting sternness towards sym- pathy, clothed with integrity that is spot- less indeed, but having also sweet allure- ment. Happy indeed the man who, within the granitic qualities of law and justice conceals the amethystine qualities of affec- tion and sympathy in the heart. Not until Puritan and Cavalier unite in one... man, who bends for coronation before Christ, his di- vine master, will the perfect man appear. In his eulogy upon John Brown, Wendell Phillips said that Lord Bacon, as he marches down the centuries, may put one hand on the telegraph and another on the steam- engine and say, " These are mine, for I taught you to invent." Could we as- 252 The Message of Puritanism semble in one room earth's greatest sons, who have achieved much for liberty and progress, and could the Puritan spirit pass from one son of goodness and genius to another, few would be found in that goodly company who did not belong to the group called Puritan.
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