Oration Delivered by Horatio Stebbins at San Francisco, Cal. July 4, 18761876 - 12 pages |
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affirm and declare American Continent beautiful brood centre century cheap civilization Colonies Columbus common nature conception conquest Constitutional Government Copernicus cruel cycle of human declare to-day DELIVERED BY HORATIO destinies of mankind devout display earth eternal evil faith free Government freedom and equal heaven HORATIO STEBBINS horizon human culture human events human mind human nature human progress human society human things human thought hundred years ago idea identity of human imagination imbued inheritance insight inspired intel intellectual and moral intelligence judicial mind lectual man's material universe material world mean ment mighty mind and ethic modern moral genius moral law nations navigation never noblest ORATION DELIVERED origin period philosophic principles reason and conscience Reformation religion Republican liberty round world SAN FRANCISCO sand seed of human sense solar system spirit STEBBINS AT SAN striking illustration sublime theatre theory thou tions truth unfolding vague
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Page 4 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 8 - Human society on this continent for a hundred years has been led forth under the power of the principles which we affirm and declare to-day. A continent has been subdued to culture. A degree of external human comfort has been attained and enjoyed, that probably has not been surpassed in any portion of the earth, or in any period of history. Let us cheerfully accord whatever is due to the cheapness and fertility of the soil, but let us also be just to human energies. The results of scientific research...
Page 8 - ... that belongs to essential truth. "We affirm and declare to-day, as the fathers did in 1776, that all men are free ! And we mean by it that fundamental fact of human nature by virtue of which man is man, endowed by heaven with the power to choose between good and evil, and to direct his course towards those ends that seem to him best ! We mean that the office of Government is to protect that freedom, and not to encroach upon it; to throw around it the environments of law, that under law it may...
Page 1 - ... the germinating period of human thought. It is now four hundred years since the European world began to feel those premonitory pains that go before the births of time. How the great ideas that now govern the world as the common thought of men first dawned upon the solitudes of genius, is beyond the power of man to tell. It is common to account for it in the intellectual law of suggestion, or association. Accordingly, we are told that the apple falling from the tree in Newton's garden suggested...
Page 1 - ... an extended plain. Imagination, strong angel of truth, had not looked with undazzled eye upon that inaccessible glory which the senses cannot touch. The outward manifestations of power filled the mind with vague wonder and fear, while reason had not yet discovered their law. It was the seed-time of history, the germinating period of human thought. It is now four hundred years since the European world began to feel those premonitory pains that go before the births of time. How the great ideas...
Page 3 - ... decretum fateor the seed-plot of Republican liberty. If his doctrine was cruel, it was the offspring of a cruel age. It was not Protestant or Catholic that was cruel ; it was the condition of the human mind. That terrible doctrine, which now is like the nest of a former year from which the brood has flown, pervaded Christendom, and sent forth a mighty race that fought against tyranny everywhere, always sided with the people, gave victory to the plebeian Roundhead over the lordly Cavalier and...
Page 3 - ... the priest to the people ; from the traditions of the elders to the mind and heart of man. It was not the revival of an old life, but the inspiration of the new ; the transfer of civilization to a new centre of development. The old system had completed its orbit ; but that orbit was not the complete cycle of human progress, ever widening its range and rising higher and higher. Men are the unconscious instruments of powers, principles and ideas which they do not fully comprehend. They are the...