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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...and Devoutminded, the Reverent who deserve reverence, who are as the Salt of the Earth;--that not till this is done can the State consider its edifice to have reached the first story, to be safe for a moment, to he other than an arch without the keystones, and supported hitherto on mere wood. How this will be done? Ask not; let the second or the third generation after this begin to ask Alas, wise men do exist, born duly into the world in every current generation; but the getting of them regimented is the highest pitch of human Polity, and the feat of all feats in political engineering: --impossible for us, in this poor age, as the building of St. Paul's would be for Canadian Beavers, acquainted only with the architecture of fish-dams, and with no trowel but their tail. Literature, the strange entity so-called, --that indeed is here. If Literature continue to be the haven of expatriated spiritualisms, and have its Johnsons, Goethes, and true Archbishops of the World, to show for itself as heretofore, there may be hope in Literature. If Literature dwindle, as is probable, into mere merry-andrewism. windy twaddle, and feats of spiritual legerdemain, analogous to rope-dancing, opera-dancing, and street-fiddling with a hat carried round for halfpence or for guineas, there will be no hope in Literature. What if our next set of Souls'-Overseers were to be silent ones very mainly --Alas, alas, why gaze into the blessed continents and delectable mountains of a Future based on truth, while as yet we struggle far down nigh suffocated in a slough of lies, uucertain whether or how we shall be able to climb at all --Who will begin the long steep journey with us; who of living statesmen will snatch the standard, and say, like a hero on the forlorn-hope for his.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217011457 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217011454 |
| Weight | 0.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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