A Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge On the Day of the General
A Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge On the Day of the General
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Among all this regaling of our poorer brethren with intellec- tual food, are we not often compelled to pass a fellow- 16 creature, who, with a form as noble as ours, can find no food for the body ? With all our material devices and improvements, have these moral and social evils dimi- nished? Are there not as many poor, and the poor as miserable ? as many ignorant, and the ignorant as brutal? as many destitute of the means of earning food, and those thus destitute, as desolate, as in the age of... our fathers? And if this be so, how poor is our pride, how misplaced our self-gratulation. The rich man can command the elements, can annihilate space and time, can cull the sweets of every climate, can gather about him those who can reveal to him the secrets of nature. Be it so : even he may be not a whit the wiser or better for all this. But how are we wise, if we rejoice and wonder at these achievements of our contemporaries, while poverty and vice and ungodliness grow and multiply around us till we cannot, for shame and fear, look them in the face, and, as was said of old by one who, while writing the story of a great empire, thought of its abject and gloomy decline, can neither bear our diseases, nor the remedies which they need ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Among all this regaling of our poorer brethren with intellec- tual food, are we not often compelled to pass a fellow- 16 creature, who, with a form as noble as ours, can find no food for the body ? With all our material devices and improvements, have these moral and social evils dimi- nished? Are there not as many poor, and the poor as miserable ? as many ignorant, and the ignorant as brutal? as many destitute of the means of earning food, and those thus destitute, as desolate, as in the age of... our fathers? And if this be so, how poor is our pride, how misplaced our self-gratulation. The rich man can command the elements, can annihilate space and time, can cull the sweets of every climate, can gather about him those who can reveal to him the secrets of nature. Be it so : even he may be not a whit the wiser or better for all this. But how are we wise, if we rejoice and wonder at these achievements of our contemporaries, while poverty and vice and ungodliness grow and multiply around us till we cannot, for shame and fear, look them in the face, and, as was said of old by one who, while writing the story of a great empire, thought of its abject and gloomy decline, can neither bear our diseases, nor the remedies which they need ?
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