This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... To-day the two activities of the memory blend in one. Instinctively she floods the mind with the history of bygone days. Pride of national lineage and gratitude to national heroes makes memory rise to her full stature, so that all her effort is in the direction of her natural function and impulse. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... To-day the two activities of the memory blend in one. Instinctively she floods the mind with the history of bygone days. Pride of national lineage and gratitude to national heroes makes memory rise to her full stature, so that all her effort is in the direction of her natural function and impulse. Memorial Day began in the annual commemoration of those who fought in the struggle for the preservation of our nation's unity and who, for that great cause, laid down their lives. This motive still survives. Each year we mark afresh the historic moment, the crisis of blood, out of which our country rose as a giant refreshed with wine. But Memorial Day has enlarged, and still will enlarge, its meaning with the passage of the years. The Civil War is fast receding into distance and, added to the roll of those who fell in that red tragedy, are men whose faces and forms are still clear to us; men who less than two decades since linked arms with us and walked, our comrades; men who in our latest war, obedient to the country's call, bled and suffered and died. Memory enables us to claim fellowship with the throng of the named and unnamed heroes and citizens of worth, who belonged to a senior generation and whom we never knew. It carries us into any great presence of the past with whom we may elect to consort, so democratic a marshal is memory. General or enlisted men can it link to us with equal unconcern and ease in that fellowship of the dead where there is no distinction of rank or station. At will it unites us again with those of our contemporaries whom we knew and loved, and by whose side we fought or labored before they were swept from sight. This year Memorial Day takes on a grander significance and office than ever before. It ceases to be a...
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Add this copy of The Inspiration of Responsibility: And Other Papers to cart. $18.00, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
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