ni and the temple tlie palace and gardens are of tlie former but wliat are they to the celestial rs the eternal are present to the i of the latter and the visions of his rocky h with a glory inconceivable to the ai two never each other while tliey remain essentially as now the that questions and ca s and doubts and seems to him and object the of proper humility into the abject of contentment into the breasts of the down trodden and of with a sacred reverence for property those who have no personal reason to think well of the sharp distinction of mine and the on the other hand on humanity as the inevitable of all true religion presses the best beloved s searching question if a man love not his brother whom he seen how can he love god whom he has not seen or as a poet of our own day has it that there are to adam worse than to god and that the effective answer to an imperfect halting faith is a devoted loving life this earnest angry strife shall yet be composed � this stormy be hushed � not through the absolute defeat of either party but through the recognition by each of the truth affirmed by tlie other so that and shall take their places side by side on the same and faith and life humanity and christianity be recognized by our enlarged vision as of tlie same revolving and in turn by the same sun of everlasting truth meantime let us cherish the for his and not the s is the active force through which this ultimate of the real with the ideal is to be achieved harsh and sweeping rash and he may seem and often is but his fire however blind and its rage be foimd at last to have left all that was really worth preserving with him w e respect the proper force and legitimate function of we must say � standing still is childish folly going backward is a crime none should patiently endure any ill that he can cure onward keep the march of time onward while a wrong remains to be conquered by the right g while a to n by while an error cloud the of the or a action ia tho man i part and to liim our final word of and cheer shall wo on ths tower for of ths when en r shall and truth and right shall and wrong and indeed the life of the may seem rugged and it were hard to say that any were worth living at all who can that the career of the conquering warrior � of tlie of gold or pomp or joys the monarch in his purple the by bis the over his bowl � is not a on humanity and an offence against god but the earnest unselfish � into a state of darkness evil and and striving to replace these by light and purity � � he may i die t a ao i and lowly and lonely couch of the dying uncle tom whose life had been a brave and christian battle against monstrous injustice and crime � these teach us at that all greatness is and tempered and proved in life long struggle against vicious traditions institutions and that not to have been a is not to have truly lived life is a which any breath may wealth or power a snow melting into the treacherous deep across whose waves we are floated on to our unseen destiny hut to have lived so tliat one less han is called to choose between starvation and � one less slave feels the lash in mere or cruelty � to have lived so that some eyes of those fame shall never know are brightened and others at the name of the beloved one � so that the few who knew him truly shall recognize him as a bright warm cheering presence which was here for a season and left the world no worse for his stay in it � this surely is to have really lived � and not wholly in vain the grounds of i mr and � t has on me as junior advocate for tlie of protection to open the discussion of this i do this with less than i should feel in meeting able aud practised on almost any other because i am strongly confident tliat you my hearers will regard this as a subject demanding logic rather than the and proper treatment of homely truths than the indulgence of of fancy as sensible as you can be of my as a i have chosen to put my views on paper in order that i may present them in as c m the of protection i ignorant hopelessly ignorant indeed and while i may not hope to set before you in the brief space allotted me all that is essential to a full understanding of a question which the whole arch of political economy � on which men have written volumes without at all it � i do entertain a sanguine hope that i shall be able to set before you considerations to the candid and mind of the policy and necessity of protection let us not waste our time on non that unwise and unjust measures have been adopted under the pretence of protection i stand not here to deny that laws intended to be have sometimes been injurious in their tendency i need not dispute the logic which would thence infer the or the danger of would just as easily prove all laws and all policy mischievous and destructive political economy is one of the latest bom of the the very fact that we meet here this evening to discuss a question so as this proves it to be yet in its comparative infancy tlie sole favor i shall ask of my therefore 