The Sun Had Not Risen, But The

History, Like Love, Is So Apt To Surround Her Heroes With An Atmosphere Of Imaginary Brightness.

The Ability To Discriminate Between That Which Is True And That Which Is False Is One Of The Last Attainments Of The Human Mind.

The Vulgar Charge That The Tendency Of Democracies Is To Leveling, Meaning To Drag All Down To The Level Of The Lowest, Is Singularly Untrue; Its Real Tendency Being To Elevate The Depressed To A Condition Not Unworthy Of Their Manhood.

Commerce Is Entitled To A Complete And Efficient Protection In All Its Legal Rights, But The Moment It Presumes To Control A Country, Or To Substitute Its Fluctuating Expedients For The High Principles Of Natural Justice That Ought To Lie At The Root Of Every Political System, It Should Be Frowned On, And Rebuked.

The Listeners Got Some Such Insights Into Their Past Lives, As One Gets Into The Darker Parts Of The Woods, When A Stray Gleam Of Sunshine Finds Its Way Down To The Roots Of The Trees.