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Considerations on Some of the Elements and Conditions of Social Welfare and Human Progress: Being Academic and Occasional Discourses and Other Pieces
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In unison with the tone of popular opinion - particularly in relation to the working of our political institutions and to our future fortunes as a nation. On these topics the utterance of honest censure and prephetic warning is not only unacceptable, but quite likely to subject one to odium, as wanting in patriotism. But who is the better lover of his country, he who lulls the people with soft strains of pleasing adulation, and kindles their fancy with bright pictures of future greatness and glory; or he who tells them of the rocks and dangers that are around them, and of the conditions on which their safety depends I profess to love my country as much as any man that breathes but I do not think the best way to show it is by perpetual eulogies on our superiority as a nation. I desire for my country a glorious future no man can more fervently pray for it but I do not think the best way to make it sure is to be forever casting brilliant.
In unison with the tone of popular opinion - particularly in relation to the working of our political institutions and to our future fortunes as a nation. On these topics the utterance of honest censure and prephetic warning is not only unacceptable, but quite likely to subject one to odium, as wanting in patriotism. But who is the better lover of his country, he who lulls the people with soft strains of pleasing adulation, and kindles their fancy with bright pictures of future greatness and glory; or he who tells them of the rocks and dangers that are around them, and of the conditions on which their safety depends I profess to love my country as much as any man that breathes but I do not think the best way to show it is by perpetual eulogies on our superiority as a nation. I desire for my country a glorious future no man can more fervently pray for it but I do not think the best way to make it sure is to be forever casting brilliant.
432 pages, Hardcover
Published February 15, 2019
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