The Idaho Republican., 1914-08-14


sian and Copt and Tartar were de-
feated and the way prepared for the
civilization of modern Europe.
Hasting brought the culture and
advancement of the Franks into VIC
torious contact with the decaylng
regime of the older SaXons. 1t in
fused Norman blood into the veins
of the Saxon and the Angles 1t
made the England of today possible.
1t dethroned Druidism and establish
ed Christianity as the permanent
religious force in the British isle.
The victory of the English fleet
under Queen Elizabeth over the Span
ish Armada in 1888 broke the power
of Spain that represented rottinG
civilization and gave England the first
rank among the nations of the world.
1t inspired the literature of that and
the Victorian age. 1t made Shake
speare and Spenser possible; the
Baconian system of philosophy, the
thrilling poetry of Byron, Milton,
Shelley, the prestige of English
thought in science, English colonial
ton of permanent settlement instead
of Spains destructive policy of con-
quest for gold and plunder; gave to
us Australia, New Zealand and the
Canadas, brilliant points from which
to flash the glories of an advanced
culture and progress.
And now the star of destiny swims
into wester skies. 1t looks down
upon the birth of a new nation on
the American continent. What does
1.-THE victory at Yorktown spell? 1t
spells out the electric and wonderful
story of this union of states. 1t began
with the shot fired by the Concord
farmers heard around the world. 1t
ended with the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown. 1t broke the
power of England of these shores. 1t
made way for American culture, COM
merce, civilization on the grandest
scale ever witnessed on this earth.
1t stood for the rights of man; it
preached human brotherhood and
equality; it destroyed forever here
the divine right of kings; it brought
into play the hitherto unknown ener-
gies and possibilities of the common
people. For Burgoyne to have tri-
umphed at Saratoga or CORVALLIS at
Yorktown would have Jared the har-
monies of the eternal song of prog
ress as voiced by all the poets and
prophets of the human race.
Then came Waterloo. Why did
not Napoleon win at Waterloo? II
was not in accord with the divine
plan. Humboldt says in his Cos
mos" THE history of the world is
not Ineligible apart from a govern
ment of the world Hegel in his
+ PHILOSOPHY of History" says: "The
history of the world presents us with
, an intelligent process and "the
world of intelligence and conscious
volition is not governed by chance.
victor Hugo is right: ''There are NJ
, accidents, over all. Good" There is {
divinity that shapes the vast ends o
human events. Behind the dim un
, known standeth the Infinite hid II
shadows and clouds of darkness
There is a government of the worlt
of man as of the consultations
:, There is one far off Divine event tt
which the whole creation moves ant
the epochal events of human histor.
, are but so many footprints upon thu
sand of time, showing a movemen
to a goal of good. Had the guide
Lacoste, nodded his head instead o
shaking it, there would have beer
no wild carnage of the Scotch Gray
in the sunken road of Ohain. Hat
it not rained on the night of Jun'
III, 1915, Waterloo would have beel
begun at sunrise, as it was Austerlit.
and the supremacy of French cannon
brought early into action instead o
at past q of the 18th would probabl.
have made of Waterloo anothe
French Marengo. Had Blucher beeI
> delayed and had Grouchy kept faith
but not SO; the stars in their courses
fought against Napoleon as they die
against Sisera. Had he won at Water
loo the world would have been trod
den down by the man on horseback
and the clock would have been turned
back centuries on the dial.
Gettysburg completed what York
/, town had begun. Appromattox wal
, but the sequal and complement o
( Gettysburg. In that memorable con
test the power of the rebellion wa'
, broken. 1t spelled emancipation fcl
, four millions of slaves; is spelled oul
, nation with big N; it preserved thu
union of states; it gave wings to un
, paralleled progress.
| Sedan marked the dethronment o
! autocracy in France, the rise OF the
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