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...This is the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate the day. Washington--the mightlest name on earth--long since mightlest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
...greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...
...spirit tries to plant one in CRIMSON'S fertile rows, a savage hand plucks the puny thing from the ground, and holds it up for all to see. No illusions are left for us concerning the "Tutoring School". Swarms of indignant Philistines tore that feeble seed from its mother earth. So is France forced from a position of righteous indignation to that of vindication only by success. And now poor Custer! "This was the most unkindest cut of all," for, did he not have scores of years behind him? Knowledge is pleasant, but how much more blessed is ignorance...
...defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly out of joint with no chance of ever being set straight again...
...When Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman" was thought of, is the most distinguished on earth...