Historical Maxims for Troubled Times. An Address Before the Law Department of Yale College, At Commencement, June 27, 1887
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He must look away to the greater re- sults, the really noble purposes for which he is combat- tinor, if he would rouse the heroic enthusiasm which makes him ready not only to do but to suffer for a good cause. In a less degree the same influences operate upon the private citizen, who must determine what party and what measures to support in such times of public peril and excitement, and upon the statesman who bears a. ^4 An Address large part of the responsibility for the decision which may put... armies in motion or prolong the terrible de- struction of war. In the scriptural assignment of a time for all things, we may justly say there is a time when men may be deaf to appeals to sympathy, to the arguments that re- bellion is begun with plausible if not praiseworthy motives, to everything in short which would weaken the resolve to drive inexorably onward to the triumph of the right as we see and know it. But there are also times when it becomes a sacred duty to calm the passions of strife, and to give full weight and force to all considerations which would dis- arm vengeance and even seek with earnest solicitude to revive all the sweet influences of peace and concord.
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