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aeIno wort, 10 Ii tisrraceful, anil flicncps nt,
emblem OF rank. and fhus be- illa ,nnst abIert
sIays Of fatre ideas and traeltces Kclalit,us 10
truth arc The relations Witch determine at last
the quality and nuanty OF persouai indcpcntl-
cncc, In no day or part OF hts jilc can man
bear well q fatsc ptincipte. So far a. he holds
one ilo ia slave, ftir wc nrc nl tho creatures OF
our i,cas. Wl,cn Tic oi,i mc!IeaI science hcld
TO ireo,tont aud copIous Gccillnrss oil who lived
iu thai rcriMl were The slaves 0f m error. In
the age Of Eltxabeth. toty,o mo student of nature
iuuhJeti an argument for icspo.iatn ,ipot,
The fact that ia Tic most Industrious and wt.c Of
ali coinnics-a swarm uf bccs-thc multitude
pbcyctl one queen, SAo was tho ono will, thc
singlu impulse Therefore, democracy was
against nature, and the Queer, held her throne
6y divine right. Thus were tho liberties OF
aome oyert1lrown By hive goycrnmcnt,-an
crrpr rising un out OF a fo,tcIful resemblance.
m error OF tfansating single text, perhaps,
Fapai Empire, With, most of that iong pertosl,
was cocx[tns1to with f11e ctytiIzcI world.
.Upon thee, rctcr, found nv Church." is the
rendering t)at rare rs ttr largest rcltQjut1s and
clInngc oi rendering would iuvo given a rev
color 10 Mi tie mat eighteen ceuluttcs Tic taIto
notion thai ths earth wns The centra1 atar
and tlat all the Other stars went around y,
! nge for many generations. Hut these
errors aro mild In their power 10 work
injury compared With the errors Of morals.
Vino viii ever be able to estimate tho evils TINT
fully jttstItIed by good hut mistaken mcnf The
worif is 1nade sorrowfu1 enough By mcn whn
do what they knuw 10 DO wrong, hut wl,nt an
addition tn this sorrow when good men swell
tbc quantity of calamty l,y doing wrong under
lie st,ppo.tlon that they arc fjgbtl It Is a.
most certain that Tctxcl was s!nrurc wcn hc
sold salvation for ltttir money. When The
night, the Christians who performed the t,,Ur.
dcr rushed to t!Er clluryhrs to bless tIod for
sucl, SUCCESS In'fiiling tho world Of their own
full eyiJcnrc that l,c was tnoss sincere. Heat
tempted to do right. III nrcsence OF all there
Ills, brought unon mankind by tlc gut4l. even
bv the best hDw fulI OF reason n1,sl application
co,nrs to mike t.s frcc We snail live the lives Of
| dccrattd slaves. Our ignorance OF Tic relations
| VI life will make us elilcr Slaves or tyrants.
WITH tho deeper study Of tr,lt[. hus colnc tho
counting for the rise ol ciyil liberty VIC slways
make mention Of tho meeting ul the English
mobiles. and thvIr 1tng, .1oll,,, 10 f1ae the Naq-
uu Charfd. nut wc lip lhts hcra,1er NC car, SC
waves Of truth which arc silently },ossin4
through ths bosulns of unknown, humble men.
| And yrt We know that tha meeting OF Jonn
aud tl,y nol,1ca was only MI overt act Of that
truth, which Ind bccu clanor!ng for genera
| toua for q new utlcrauce Twenty ycnrs 10.
fore ths urent charter or Constitution was
signed, Dantc had, WHEN far a~nr, set into h!s
inserted INTO parchment, at Runnyn,cne. Dc.
tween tlits ilu,n;lyn,cie and Fiorcilco there lay
different nQt,ons nui languages, and hundreds
Is not ,o1,ly to 10 seen in Tho Iukes and
our fcet SO trtt, ,loca not originate Oh at,,c-
iieil, nor in a poets cinmocr. but It .trfckles
through olt the to OF tic human world, bc tlic
nronIc numbered by millions. and b. their lind
! Whole contincnt. 1t WIS a0) wears aitcr King
john, and Dante, that Luther discovered ao,llo
new freedom, for religion, an.l Il wis .UU years
after Luther that orr fathers declared sms new
liberty for America Thus, while you and
ink ii battIcflelds antl charters and hear tic
rup Of swu1lls and see some clues, OF ten thrcwn
overheard and say, ..Tbcro ron1cs nbcrty,n our
Master iookctl Jecpcr, pM, soItl that as ru,i<lly
A.. trntb shall coc to npll, 70 rnp{,Ily viii CONS.
| c,nnncfnatIor. The gradual vruwtI1 Ut truth is
tl.v growth Of Intly!iual privilege. Tho tree uf
kmnwjeIua anI tbs iiberty trro grow 10 QUE
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