The Scholar in a Republic: Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, June 30, 1881Lee and Shepard, 1881 - 36 páginas |
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Adams agitation American scholarship Athens ballot book-learning book-men Boston Brougham burden cant cities civilization colleges common sense Crillon crime crushed dead Democracy despotism distinctive American character distrust duty of scholars easy class England English entire non-resistance Europe fastidious scholarship fathers Fe"nelon fear fools decide forty free speech French French Revolution George William Curtis giant half Harvard human ignorance institutions intellectual intemperance Ireland Jefferson John Brown journals Judas justice learning legislatures lift Lord Brougham ment million moral sense movement nation Nihilism peace Plato prejudices pulpit race reform religion republic rests Roger Williams Romilly rule Russia Saxon says self-respect serene faith Seven Hills silence Sir Harry Vane Sir Robert Peel slaves society stands Tacitus thought thousand years ago Timid scholars to-day toleration of opinion trusted truth universal suffrage unlearned class vote wealth WENDELL PHILLIPS wholly wise men argue wonder the humbler words Wycliffe
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Página 15 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 12 - A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...
Página 34 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 29 - For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe ' return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
Página 2 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 16 - The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves.
Página 34 - To be as good as our fathers we must be better. They silenced their fears and subdued their prejudices, inaugurating free speech and equality with no precedent on the file. Europe shouted " Madmen ! " and gave us forty years for the shipwreck. With serene faith they persevered. Let us rise to their level. Crush appetite, and prohibit temptation if it rots great cities. Intrench labor in sufficient bulwarks against that wealth which, without the tenfold strength of modern incorporation, wrecked the...
Página 30 - In such a land he is doubly and trebly guilty who, except in some most extreme case, disturbs the sober rule of law and order. But such is not Russia. In Russia there is no press, no debate, no explanation of what Government does, no remonstrance allowed, no agitation of public issues. Dead silence, like that which reigns at the summit of Mont Blanc, freezes the whole empire, long ago described as "a despotism tempered by assassination.
Página 9 - ... the Wycliffe and Jefferson of history mean this if they mean anything,— then, when in 1867, Parliament doubled the English franchise, Robert Lowe was right in affirming, amid the cheers of the House, "Now the first interest and duty of every Englishman is to educate the masses— our masters.
Página 34 - Let us rise to their level. Crush appetite, and prohibit temptation if it rots great cities. Intrench labor in sufficient bulwarks against that wealth which, without the tenfold strength of modern incorporation, wrecked the Grecian and Roman States ; and with a sterner effort still, summon women into civil life as reinforcement to our laboring ranks in the effort to make our civilization a success.