1743 - Memorial for Thomas Jefferson -- 1943
1743 — Memorial for Thomas Jefferson -- 1943 Tom Jefferson—American [On the wall* of the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial dedicated this week in Washington, D. C, there are inscribed the...
...one n we will keep out of their way, they cannot get at us...
...Jefferson was more and more convinced of the aeaf to keep European machinations out of this continent...
...We have seen, indeed, once within the records of history, a complete eclipse of the human mind continuing for centuries...
...The letter killeth, the spirit giveth life...
...He dreawt of a* American continent of peace, cut off from all the brutalities and irrtrjeue* of Europe...
...SP4$ ts) *f realized...
...Ail mankinds ought then, with us, rejoice in its prosneritj, and sympathise in its adverse fortunes, as involving everything dear to map" He felt acutely the resposibility to mankind inherent in the sole great democracy left on earth...
...The character of the PTYnhtoni luu of fliMiriu...
...And even should the cldud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them...
...The cooks of the henyard kill one another up...
...Leave tfi« Pje*-ldent free to chose his own coadjutors, to pursue his own measure*, apd sappst* him and them, even if we think we are wiser than they, honester than they »l*i or possessing more enlarged information of the state of thing*** Presently Jefferson came to the conclusion that the whole Western bemjsphe"* should be separated from Europe, physically and spirituajjy...
...He was convinced that the people alone are promising depositories, of government, but that "to render even them safe, their minds must be improved- Educational opportunity "adapted to the years, to the capacity, and the condition of everyone, and directed to their freedom and happiness" was, he never ceased to believe, the tine sure foundation of a commonwealth of free people...
...12, 1821...
...It was v*ry like the present, but without the experience 'of the preser...
...And we are almost entirely unacquainted with him as a human being...
...The insulated state in which nature hat placed the American continent, should so far avail it that no spark of war kpidM in the other quarters of thefgkhe should be wafted across the wide oceans wbk* separate us from them...
...If we step with his language, his philosophy of life is as antiquated as his "large umbrella with brass ribs, covered with green silk and neatly finished...
...Himself a firm believer in one Gcd, he fought for the right to believe in "twenty gods, or no God...
...Commerce between master and slaves is despotism...
...Females have equal rights with males...
...he seems willing to stand the test of inquiry, and to be weighed in the balance only by his merit and attainments...
...This pugnacious humor of mankind seems to be the law of his nature, one of the obstacles totoo great multiplication in the mechanism of the Universe...
...but Jefferson, in a beautiful letter to John Adams, restated his hopes for humanity and his faith in democracy: "I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance...
...The dead have no rights...
...among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...In January of 1793, Jefferson reaffirmed his faith in the great uUait of the French...
...changed enormously...
...Jefferson wrote ferrentry m 1803: "I bless the Almighty Being, who...
...Indeed . . .. ours is a bed of roses...
...Bod created the mind free...
...f Jefferson felt that America was the last i*l»nd of freedom in a rapidb darkening world and he feared for his country's future...
...The president is a little awkward in his first address, hut you are immediately at ease in his presence...
...U/hfi ^a tad ajar Constitution, insufficient to secure the hs^pi^asa of o»f peoaj*, " m «tt ft rWh-?h,e people are the guardians qf their liberty...
...When has it bees so imperative to expand the range' of our appreciations, to cross the border of habitual likes and like what we have disliked...
...Theve is new opportunity to futher life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ip saury area of the globe...
...Struck by the many similarities between the Corsican bandit and tee Berlin psychopath, I have made a number of selections from Jefferson's letters which describe Europe's condition in the Bonapartist period...
...It deserved well oi its country...
...XV — 384- H-°Q) ha8 produced an autobiographical biography, an explosive paradox that will not be confined to the cowers in which the publishers have bound it...
...H«*R»to interesj fplfcp good life for men and women generally, bis wM8aytfrt;B|g fiift in mauls moral and intellectual capacity, his invariable pMPejet «f »W»«*g specific workable implements to act^aiise ideals and make them effective...
...freedom, to^annce, enttis^tenmeat, and HnrftiaoM Tim ideal existed newhsZ else on ea^hTafd •TOP* "Iflf* •****«¦* |l»htfnff rt on American m| When Jeferaa* wag TfUllidjft *# »« WW State*, the Atlantic Ocem was made aoaajr hg poratejes* and tha Maajtenim-M by corsairs...
...It was onje ^f his fflgd-est dreams...
...od...
...He happened also to believe that as such they hfg to, bajfftg to, tug structure of nature and be divinely sponsored...
...Jefferson thanked the Almighty that a large body of water separated the blood-soaked continent of Europe frem tk peaceful Western hemisphere...
...For these reasons, and for his inquiring and unfettered mind, his love of music and the arts, his freedom from envy and his passion for peace, bis commitment to "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another...
...They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppgse what they did to be beyond amapui lent...
...and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-readi...
...is not whether human rights are deductible from "the laws, of jaatufa and aa^use'f God...
...Today be would have no such consolation—o* an eight hour distance separates Europe from America...
...all suffused with warm and steady affection—for these reasons he had already become the center of inspiring legend in his life-time...
...Equal application of law is fundamental...
...When Emperor Napoleon I began his career of coaquest, President Jefferson exclaimed, in a letter to Dr...
...Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind...
...But time and truth will rescue and embalm their memories, while their posterity will he enjoying that very liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives...
...France than that the fjecjaration 0f fcde-pendence was written in the bouse of a Philadelphia bricklayer named Graaf...
...1 belonged to it, and labored with it...
...atetftmsftfwipi fete...
...But happny for Us, the Mammoth cannot swim, nor the Leviathan movT on dry land...
...The liberty of the whole earth was dependent on the issue yf the contest, and was ever such a prise won with so little innocent blood...
...He wrote to Dr...
...Walter Jones (1810) : "Our difficulties are indeed great...
...Most of us are ignorant of the numerous practical means he devised and fought for to further the interests of common people...
...In the eternal revolution p/ am the destinies have placed our portion of existence amidst such scenes of tumili and outrage, as no other period, within our knowledge, has presented...
...The knowledge of very few, however, goes beyond such bare facts...
...It is instructive, however, to note that born in th* South, and » slaveholder himself, the Virginian hated and fought the "abominable crime" of Negro slavery...
...And the system of government which shall keep us afloat amidst the wreck of the world, will \* immortalised in history...
...Others support church authority as' a mesas of protecting their threatened privileges of exploitation...
...All men have liberty of religious opinion...
...His smile is very engaging and impresses you •jrifh a cheerful frankness...
...Bernard Kayo has gathered an abundance of documentary material and woven it together with consummate skill {Jefferson Himself...
...fSt so dear a state, to sacrifice every attachment and every enmity...
...pf material success seek to control'educational institutions...
...If we read him to get the social vision the words convey, he has a message not only for us but for generations unborn...
...Indeed the course of events has convinced many that a man will have only such rights as he can seize from his fellows and hold on to...
...Their morality is part oi their nature...
...The young American democracy has stood the test of time and trial by fire...
...Aa the luceateBpial memorials of Jefferson's birth are observed throughout the Amorisan nation, worse boners will be palled than the mere error of calling Jefferson the "discoverer of electricity...
...Houghton Mifflin Company, pp...
...When was there greater need* that we'$>e' aide to think with maximum clearness...
...I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or coHectiveiy...
...And it has peculiar relevancy today...
...IN 1787, when Jefferson was ambassador to TW>Sf' fc* **rot* to Colonel * Humphreys: "Our young Republic may . . . besiege the throne of heaven with eteraaj prayers, to extirpate from creation this class of human lions, tigers, and raaiw moths called Kings [dictators...
...The editors of the Times, among many others, were very properly shocked—although we find it difficult to see »hy the knowledge of the Wrrect reply <P- 8. President, University of Virginia founder, BUI of {lights author) wopld have proved so overwhelming aa achievement...
...He was therefore all his life a crusader against ignorance...
...Nor does what is called ClUtHMtym prodHSO any ether effect, than to teach fcegl tA g»W»# tn# principle of the bellum omnium ru spigii on a greater scale, and instead of the little contest hetween tribe and tribe, to comprehend all (he quarters of the earth in the same work of destruction...
...wits honor untarnished and skin untouched...
...that his j'jl*ift cannot sleep forever...
...According to his explicit testimony, the severest contests in which he ever engaged were with religious tyranny...
...Whft do our times call for more loudly than a crusade against ignorance— ignorance of the heart and of the mind...
...In a time of black reaction, a number of years before the revolutions of 1830, and of 1848, which he never lived to see, Thomas Jeff ergon remained a revolutionary, democratic (optimist . . .] I will not believe our labors are lost...
...He vigorously resisted these influence*, rfe he'd to the conviction that a democratic way of life and an educated people sire inseparable...
...His language is peculiarly appropriate, and his manner very unaffected...
...till they recruit again...
...By Saul K. Padover A Political Man ri MARKING the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson, we celebate the bir* of a man whose greatness is timeless and whose stature keeps growing wS the centuries...
...It was against just such forces that Jefferson went openly to battle...
...and among the Wlliifftifflil given WW*, ''President <lf t*W Cupfederacy.-' "founder of tfce liaturda^-Bvenfflg Beat," "SglyttiOT 4r»f Worker'** "originator of "* Ooctripe,'' "hfWjrtt- the Weft with ea»g," "discovered electricity...
...The most ruthless and relentless enemies of everything he stood for were those who supported the social supremacy of the church...
...Should this be again attempted, should the same northern hordes, allured again by the corn, wine, and oil cf the south, be able to settle their swarms in the countries of their growth, the art of printing alone, and the vast dissemination of books, will maintain the mind where it is, and raise the conqeuring ruffians to the level of the conquered, instead of degrading these to that of their conquerors...
...in gathering together the waters aader the heavens into one place, divided the dry laud qf your hemisphere from the dry lands of ours, and said, at least be there peace...
...All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...
...There has been ample opportunity during recent months to enlarge our acquaintance with Jefferson, and now, added to everything else^ we have the fascinating story of his life in his own words...
...Thus* worthy by education without regard to wealth or birth should administer them...
...This being the intent of the doctrine, it retains all of its original vitality...
...I shall not die without a hope that light * and liberty are on a steady advance...
...These I deplore as much as anybody, ¦and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death...
...on-the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them...
...His spirit will be tortured to make him a convenient god-head for pontifical ideologues...
...YET the spirit in which he faced the comparable revolutjon of his own day is not thap aver his cowbjBatwn of facial vision io4 metiea...
...To preserve freedom, crusade against ignorance...
...We have, to be sure, our petty squabbles apd heart burnings, and we have something of the blue devils at times...
...Edited by Melvin J. Lasky.J History "PBS Mew York Times quiz «* Ajagfjesj history put before a group of 1 Mfh school graduates the papm of Thomas Jefferaaa...
...After all, the r-rJMtn7 rtJIWVMl...
...from whom, let him perish who does not mj, 'Good Xerd deliver us...
...Jefferson was thoroughly experienced in dealing with national emergencies of the most critical nature...
...Tie» warg of French Revolution stirred the humane Jefferson to wrath at kgaaan cmga]fjr...
...To the Earl of Buchan...
...1743 — Memorial for Thomas Jefferson -- 1943 Tom Jefferson—American [On the wall* of the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial dedicated this week in Washington, D. C, there are inscribed the following four statements from the Jeffersonian political philosophy . . .] llu was destined for society...
...Europe's savages} <mild whan compared with **w «P#!&»ff ateapxjiee of the Germans today) fiUaf him with «je»ipings...
...and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...
...Well, it is here...
...But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle...
...To secure these rights governments are tes^tjted, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed- Whenever §ay form of government hero mm destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it...
...The cotitmajt of Europe was wxitbm* in the grip of a (teapot as nthwitseaa, but not quite « pathologically savage, as the Nazi tribal chief...
...Their supreme importance "however was not determined, even for Jefferson, by their derivation bat by their consequences, by their necessary relation to social progress...
...in 1816 Jefferson insisted on'a critical attitude toward th* American, past...} Seme mea look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them Kke the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched...
...To this there is nothing that a believer in American democracy can add in the year of grace 1943...
...And when is ttP« state of things to end...
...The world-wide scope of that revolution is the sort of thing Jefferson hoped for in his optimistic momenta...
...A tew of their cordial friends'met at their hands the fate of enemies...
...No man shall be compelled to support any religious ministry nor suffer on account of his beliefs...
...A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite ana snake...
...His familiarity, however, is tampered with great calmness of manner and with becoming propriety...
...Our wisest policy is peace and friendship with all mankind...
...Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, th| only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred ire af freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in other regieM of the earth, if other regions cf the earth shall ever become susceptible oi ill benign influence...
...Can the liberties of the nation he secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God...
...the son of a German immigrant...
...Benjamin Rush (1803) : "Tremendous times in Europe 1 How mighty this battle of lions and tigers...
...One need apt know that Thomas Jefferson was horn in Albemarle bounty April !*> 1?4...
...I should rejoice to see the fleets of Brazil and the United States riding together as brethren of the same family and having the same interests...
...To John Adams, Sept...
...Whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world...
...Were such books made central in the study of American history, there might be real hope of a social renaissance led, instead of <^n*J*!mj hjS thjpap who have h»d the advantage of schooling...
...Some people, frightened by contemporary dangers and uncertainties, look upon rate by church-religion as a haven of safety...
...In -1822 Jefferson, a sage of almost eighty, contemplating the world from his retirement in Monticello, resigned himself to the bitter thought that man was a natural killer...
...America has } hemisphere to itself...
...We shall do well to adhere to the saine conviction...
...His leadership turned the tide...
...their coalescing in an American system of policy, totally independent off, and unconnected with that of Europe...
...As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times...
...These people are to be free...
...who gave us life, gave us liberty...
...We might as well require a man to wear still, the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their barbarous ancestors...
...A penetrating description of Jefferson, the man, appears in a letter writ ten in May, 1807, by Joseph Story, later Supreme Court Justice . . .] Jefferson is tell and thin., of a sallow complexion, with a« fine, intelligent eye...
...for) a cordial fraternization among all the American nations, and...
...It was a tribute to the greatness of his leadership...
...Each generation is aa independent of the preceding, as that was of all which had gone before...
...I knew that age well...
...These letters hsve an astonishing timeliness and a quality of permanency in the •u{ of things...
...That people will be happiest whose laws are best...
...In this respect* too, his cause is our cause...
...Present inhabitants alone have a right to direct what is the cnocern of themselves alone...
...Lam, mnwdiry, justice, freedom and ordinary human decency were being trampled under the heels of a conqueror...
...The way is open for a Declaration of Independence for all mankind...
...remove tht •rst and chief est apostle of the desolation of men and morals, and might withdraw the scourge from the land...
...My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated...
...Once again a combination of circumstances, whether lucky or unlucky it is early to say, set the stage for social revolution...
...Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
...Myths and legends will be available in wholesale manufacture...
...It has then, like them, a right to choose for itself the form of government it believe most promotive of its own happiness...
...In 1811 Jefferson wrote to Colonel William Duant: "The last hope of human liberty in this world reste on us...
...We have seen, indeed, once within the record of history, the complete eclipse of the human mind continuing for centuries...
...educate the people at the common expense...
...Prevent the accumulation of wealth in select families-Make our hemisphere one of freedom...
...His lite was devoted to the establishment and the perpetual* of democracy ig AmjripV gU Meal that is commanded of justice, equal...
...An attack on one is an attack on the whole...
...For a time it looked as if his fellow citizens, having "lavished their lives and fortunes for the establishment of their civil freedom" were willing to remain in "religious slavery...
...And the horse, in his wild state, kills all the young males, until worn down with age and war, some vigorous youth killa him, and takes to himself the Harem of females...
...jCVEN AFTER Napoleon was exiled, Eu»pe-w»s stjjj a Best of tmraphapt (H action and despotism...
...My hope of preserving peace for our country is not founded in the greater principles at noD-resistsnce under every wrong, but ia the behef that a just sac friendly conduct on our part will procure justice and friendship from ether* And as the Napoleonic wars continued to devastate "frurope...
...I hone that peace and amity with all nations will long be the character of our land, and that its prosperity under the Charter will react on the mind of Europe, and profit her by the example...
...on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them...
...Thomas Jefferson, wished most to be remembered, as we have often been reminded, not only for his part in founding the American Republic, but for the work he did on behalf of religious freedom and public education...
...they have a set of interimts af their own in which it is our business never to engage ourselves...
...The W0f*j B»"^iV» «* ?^r4e1te4 nations," he wn% "have given wag tg force, the l*w oi igotJPffla, and the nineteenth centum dawns with th» Vandalism *f *°* fifth...
...had the twentieth century is infinite^ worse than the nineteenth...
...The death of Bonaparte (Hitler) would...
...It must have its separate system of interests, which »oet not to be subordinated to those of Europe...
...A Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American, By Bernard Mayo...
...In short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism...
...You may measure if you please, and cannot easily misjudge- . . ¦ If he chooses, he cannot fail to please...
...Tpe current of his thought is gentle and uniform, unbroken by the torrent pf eloquence, and unruffled by the fervor of vivid internal flame...
...But exactly that is what a better acquaintance with men and the world has made it impossible for a thoughtful person to take stock in...
...In 1820 he -wrote to a friend (Unpublished hatter: New York Pitblic Library, MS., IV, mt) : "I hope...
...diffuse knowledge...
...He wrote to his friend John Adams: "To turn to the news of the day, it seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eating one another again...
...it is rather whether life, liberty, and the pursuit maU lea mjpMnjzaft as fundamental in any social arrangement that is to serve the *"'yTJ)rTiHnTBlT'i ifnfTH* Jefferson's "rights" were obviously ideals, goals to strive teVlHe...
...v^^ ¦ » * • IT IS therefore out of the question to subscribe to the natural rights doctriae * precisely as it appeared to Jefferson...
...Ia" 1810 Jefferson wrote to Camar * Rodney: "The hurricane which is now blasting the world, physical and mora", has prostrated aH the mounds of reason as well as right...
...In 1797 he wrote to his friend James Madison: "jig the mfctV animal kingdom I recollect no family but man, steadi j and |tfTitemjtirg)|y amjVn—1 in the destruction of itself...
...At such times persons whose interest in educational ideals is at best incidental, undertake to shape public education, and opponents Of mental development beyond the requirement...
...And it wiH be so...
...Ten years before President Mcnroe enunciated the Monroe EforjnW...
...If he cannot awe, be will not sink into neglect...
...We .can sow see, even better than his contemporaries could, how richly the tribute was deserved...
...European killings and repressions continued for decades...
...Resolution . . .] In the straggle which was* necessary, many guilty persons fell without the form iff of trial, and with them some innocent...
...When it will be all over, we are not sure that Tom Jefferson would not have preferred the homely memorial—"bought the West with cash...
...Open to al...
...EytW government but one on the continent of Europe demolished, a conqueror roauii^f over the earth with havoc and destruction, a pirate spreading misery and rtt}» over the face of the ocean...
...Bsj| {bey give one the consolation of knowing that the United State* ojmw l|a*4 thg-T-jgj a devastating international crisis (threatened by the European belligerents) and emerged, as Jefferson pointed out...
...I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighteV On the eve of Jefferson's life the times were dark and darkening, reaction was abroad and despotism in the saddle...
...And he meant exactly that...
...The idea, of mankind endowed with rights has no intellectual standing in the twentieth century...
...By Max C. Otto A Universal Spirit ¦MILLIONS of Americans know that Jefferson had something to do with* the *** Declaration of Independence and that he was one of our-early presidents...
...Not for s good many years has there been so bold an attempt to re establish dogmatic, church-organized religion as the dominant institution of society...
...The day is not distant when we may formally require a meridian of partition thro' the ocean which separates the two hemispheres, on the hither side of which no European gust shall ever be heard, nor an American on the other, and' when during the rage of the eternal wars of- Europe, the lion and the lamb within our regions shall lie down together in peace.....And I hope no American patriot will ever lose sight of the essential policy of interdicting in the seas and territories of both Americas, the ferocious and sanguinary contests of Europe...
...The third in Jefferson's trinity of great ideals was universal education...
...Health and morality must not be sacrificed to learning...
...Scientific industrialism, mastery of spaciai isolation, the rapidity of communication, ecewwic iatordepepdeqce on an international scale—these are aspects of our situation of which Jefferson had no notion...
...It seems less significant to know that Jefferson was Minister to...
...He declared it to be self-evident that men are endowed by their Creator wi th certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and ue pursuit of happiness...
...But when viewed in comparison «e thoscof Europe, they are the joys of Paradise...
...Spiritual" coercion over men's rplnds and consciences and desires'was made illegal...
...Society reserves to each individual freedom "™ consistent with peace and order...
...What he was really saying come to this: only a form of society based upon the assumption that a human being is entitled to the fullest chance at the most liveable life, is in conformity with the demands of human nature and the conditions of the objective world...
...Contemplating this spectacle...
...Even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them...
...follow truth...
...And this, too, by sjearms of the same northern barbarians [Italics mine], conquering and taking possession of the countries and governments of the civilized world...
...He bears the marks of intense thought and perseverance in his countenance...
...Turning from Europe, Jefferson found consolation in the promise, the future, the stability qf American democracy...
...As to other animals, the lions and tigers are mere lambs compared with man as a destroyer...
...If they oaa so far worry one another as to destroy their power of tyrannizing . . .. the world may perhaps enjoy peaee...
...f*# localities make them part of a distinct system...
...In short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism...
...As to being endowed by "their Creator," that is an idea perhaps even more foreign to contemporary thought We use the term 'God,' to bp sure, and in these uncertain days more than we have for some time, but this by no means proves that we actually believe in a benevolent Deity who engraved the principles of good government, or of anything else, indelibly en the human heart...
...The facts are important, but THOSE facts, surely, are not THAT important...
...were there but an Adam and Eve left W every country, and left free, it would be better than it is now...
...We today are challenged not to lose the freedom thus won...
...Jefferson wrote to von Humboldt: "The European nations constitute a separate division of the globe...
...and bis voice flexible and distinct...
...But why must he be taken literally...
...Bears, bulls, rams, do the same...
...His manners are inviting and not uncourtly...
...His prejudices will be given hard-and-fast borders...
...Some may recall him as the uncompromising antagonist of Alexander Hamilton...
...We eughx...
...Is it true, as this statement implies, that Jefferson has something to say to men and women caught up in the revolution of today ? It depends upon how we read him...
...Jefferson, es the day of his retirement from the Presidency, prayed to God to "preserve item all danger this hallowed ark of human hope and happiness.'' He told the cttiseai of Washington: -J "The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honor«sl«i but awful...
...In 1809 he addressed the New York State Legislature: "Sole depositories of the remains of human liberty, our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agkate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that aH personal and local considerations'" » » • THE WORLD situation seemed hopeless...
...It was necessary to use the arm of the people, a machine not quite so blind as balls and bombs, but blind to a certain degree...
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