Exercises in Commemoration of the Birthday of Washington
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, that it should give distinction to the national character. No one is satisfied, in thinking of his country, with the commonplace. You cannot so enlarge the idea, you cannot give it such bulk and volume as to gain the quality of distinction. We want to have fine things attach themselves to our national reputa- tion. We want to feel that the capacity for fine things is in us as a people. There is no American of to-day who is not secretly, if not openly, proud of the fact that the nation can pro...duce a man capable of guiding its diplomacy in the politics of the world, or a man capable of the new and strange work of ruling a great dependency with justice, or a man capable of reorganizing its military service to the last demands of the national power. These are not exhibitions of the commonplace. They are outside the commonplace and above it. They are on the plane of distinction. (Applause. ) I am far from saying that education is the only source or measure of the capacity of the people for doing fine things.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, that it should give distinction to the national character. No one is satisfied, in thinking of his country, with the commonplace. You cannot so enlarge the idea, you cannot give it such bulk and volume as to gain the quality of distinction. We want to have fine things attach themselves to our national reputa- tion. We want to feel that the capacity for fine things is in us as a people. There is no American of to-day who is not secretly, if not openly, proud of the fact that the nation can pro...duce a man capable of guiding its diplomacy in the politics of the world, or a man capable of the new and strange work of ruling a great dependency with justice, or a man capable of reorganizing its military service to the last demands of the national power. These are not exhibitions of the commonplace. They are outside the commonplace and above it. They are on the plane of distinction. (Applause. ) I am far from saying that education is the only source or measure of the capacity of the people for doing fine things.
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