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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Appendix III : translations of Mr. Longfellows works (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26 : (search)
The Bay path.
[Read before the Medford Historical Society by Mr. Wilson Fiske.]
SO good a historian as Lord Macaulay declared that of all human inventions, the alphabet and the printing press excepted, those inventions which abridge distance (that is, which promote inter-communication) had done most for mankind.
Which is equivalent to saying that man rises above the savage only when and only so far as he establishes communication and effects co-operation with his fellows.
And Macaulay knew not the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless, the airplane, the automobile, the bicycle—hardly the locomotive.
How must we be civilized now?
Now I propose to speak of the road and a road; and the road is the very sign and symbol of inter-communication.
This must have been recognized a very long time ago. If we would seek the best word on roads and road-making (which is not the last word, but perhaps more nearly the first) we must look back more than five and twenty centuries to the u
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Length of days. (search)
Getting a Glimpse of the truth.
A Northern journal, which zealously supports the Administration, in remarking on the probabilities of a war between the Federal Government and the seceded States, remarks as follows:
Is it not too hastily assumed that the contest now opening, though it may be sharp, will be short?
The prediction is adventured that the South will miserably fail for want of capital, credit, food, the means of warfare, or even of subsistence.
No doubt the people of that section will suffer many things.
But war may be carried on when nothing else can be. While the seven years war was raging in Prussia, Macaulay says, "the coin was debased, the civil functionaries were left unpaid, in some provinces the civil government altogether ceased to exist.
But there were still rye bread and potatoes, there were still lead and gunpowder, and while the means of sustaining and destroying life remained Frederick was determined to fight it out to the very last."
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Rather close. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Prescriptions. (search)