This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... and to make possible the coming of the day for which the great Englishwoman so passionately prayed, when Each Christian nation shall take upon her The law of the Christian man in vast; The crown of the getter shall jail to the donor, And last shall be first while first shall be last, And to love best shall still be to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... and to make possible the coming of the day for which the great Englishwoman so passionately prayed, when Each Christian nation shall take upon her The law of the Christian man in vast; The crown of the getter shall jail to the donor, And last shall be first while first shall be last, And to love best shall still be to reign unsurpassed. You observe that I have been putting all these statements about the character and purpose of the nation into the past tense. And you wish to know whether I mean to suggest this is no longer her character or her purpose. No; I would not say that. But I do mean to leave the question open whether there are signs that the nation is in danger of falling from this high position. It is not pessimism, it is simply a wise patriotism which admits such a possibility and bravely faces it. It must be confessed that the nation is exposed to perils on this side. When we were all poor, it was easy to think of and care for the poor; now that many of us are very rich and strong, and more of us hope to be, and most of us want to be, the claims of the poor and the weak seem less urgent. There is a very powerful class which has little sympathy with the humble and the weak, which builds up its fortunes, indeed, by levying tribute upon their earnings; and there are hundreds of thousands of others who look admiringly upon the exploits of this class and wonder if they may not sometimes be able to imitate them; and there is a great multitude of others whose interests, in one way and another, are identified with the strong and who do not like to antagonize or offend them, so that powerful influences are at work to lower the tone of the national feeling toward the less fortunate classes. The enormous accumulations of wealth which have been heaped up i...
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