New Britain herald., 1921-08-01
HARDING SEEMS
 SURE 0F SUCCESS
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 ''The men and women who came l here to found in a wilderness, across thousand leagues of ocean left new state came with high and con- scious purposes of achieving a great human end. Out of ther voluninous letters, memories, public records and historical writings we constantly get the impression. of their deep convic- | tion that they had been called as divine instruments to accomplish a work of supremest significance. . The Human Symbol
 And men alone did not build what was founded here; it was but the visible sign, the human symbol, of a purpose, which we may not under stand, but for whose benefcence all men must give tribute of praise and voice undying gratitude. We may speculate and conjecture, we may seek to frame laws of human relationship by Which to account for such results as here have been wrought; but at last we Will have to recognize that they are not for us to explain.
 The English speaking race had hardly established itself in true char acter as the foremost exponent of liberal institutions when it began to distribute itself among the wilderness of the earth. Even before liberty had been secured for the mother country it's soldiers were adventuring into dis tant parts carrying their am bitions with them.
 Community of Free.
 The community of free people of our race whether in Europe or Am erica. in Africa or Australia, under the northern Or the southern skies, was begun when Jamestown and Plymouth were founded. It has car rled it's ideals wherever it has set It's standard. It has won recognition of those ideals as the basis of so- clal conduct, of community revela- tons throughout the world. It's work IS not finished but, pray God, it has come triumphantly through it's de- termlnlng ordeal. It comes forth from l that test, nerved and heartened for further tasks; confident, assured, re- llant.- None questions either it's place or it's right of leadership; few doubt it's destiny to esta blish, under that | divine guidance which it has ever recognized, the splendid structure of l human brotherhood in peace and un- | dersranding.
 T The perspectives of history are not safely to be judged save from the loftiest peaks of human experi- ence. It is the dearly bought privi- lege of our generation to stand on one of those heights of the long ages, to look back over the pathways by
 which we have come thus far, to
 see clearly what have been the main
 travelled roads and what the by-paths.
 If We will but let our minds record | hat hi <>Jr .:rJ
 note that the widespreading land
 scape behind us is now vastly
 changed. It is not what it seemed when we were passing through it. We see that some of the routes which we supposed were the high roads of
 progress were the futile ways of vast
 ed effort Others, which in the jour
 ney's heat and toll were counted only
 as it's marches of anguish, we recog-
 nize the short cuts that carried
 us quickly to loftier levels and safer
 positions.
 We stand today before the un-
 known but we look to the future
 with confidence unshakeh. There is
 no retracing, we must forever go on. , We welcome the theories brought out . in new hope, but we cling to the
 assurance founded on experience. ,I "A1l that is not bad, all that is to
 be will not be an ideal. We cannot
 lift the veil to the future, but we can analyze and understand what T has gone before It is good to keep our feet firmly on the earth thought we gaze in high hope for human brotherhood and high attachments. 'tJust as these fathers drew to- gether toward ample authority to -&Sl the freedom of these who compose it, so we must guard against the su- preme centralization of power at Ihome, and the superstate for the world. More we must combat the
 menace in the growing assumption lthat the state must support the peo- pie for just government is merely the guaranty to the people of the right of the people to support them selves. ...
 'The one outstanding danger of to-
 day is the tendency to turn to Wash
 ington for the things which are the tasks or the duties of the 48 common wealths wrich constiutute the nation. Having wrought the nation as the cen- tral power of preservation and defense let us preserve it So.
 Here was the early dedication to
 religious liberty and political freedom.
 It was sublime gift to posterity. We l, cannot better express our reverence
 today than by sweeping aside the er- TOTS, the failures, the disappointrne ents,
 the betrayals of our day and plant
 here for all America and all the world l the standards of highest justice and , real human brotherhood. This would , add to the volume of rejoicng on earth } and give echo to the heavens of the nobler aspiration of united mankind. It would dim our torch of liberty