Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...economy is content to accept prudence of this sort as an attribute. Again, to cap the climax, "There are no two characters more unlike than the heroic man and the prudent man." Do you hear this, students of political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls. Do you hear this, earnest Christians? Political economy is to you a thing to be shunned; your conduct is guided by no reason, and you are in every way imprudent men. And yet, oh, wonder, of wonders, "each may be good, and adds, perhaps...
...sketch of Californian society since the Bear Flag movement. Marshall, who first discovered the gold, was found to be a thoroughly worthless man. The people of the early history of California often descended to a state of semi-barbarism, yet there was always a spirit of manhood and heroism which has brought California to the strength she has today. The miners were allowed to work the mines by the United States government only through sufferance. The idea that the stories of the pioneers are the only references which are valuable is a very incorrect one. One must...
...affairs began to grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...transept of Memorial Hall are the tablets which bear the names of Harvard's sons who fell in that bloody warfare for liberty and righteousness; they were placed there because Harvard justly desired to do her heroes the honor, however slight, of transmitting the memory of their heroism to future generations. Has she shown the proper spirit on the day when of all others some fitting token should be placed upon these tablets? Has she no time to pause a moment to offer up a few flowers at the shrine of their martyrdom, a few brief words of consecration within...