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Show The Life of a Nation. Your nation may have art, poetry and science, all the refinements of civilized civ-ilized liife, all the comforts and safeguards safe-guards that human ingenuity can devise; de-vise; but if it lose this spirit of personal per-sonal and local independence, it is doomed and deserves its doom. As President Cleveland has well said, it is not the business of a government to support its people, but of the people to support their government; and once to lose sight of this vital truth is as dangerous as to trifle with some stealthy narcotic poison. Of the two opposite perils which have perpetually threatened the welfare of political society so-ciety anarchy on the one hand, loss of self-government on the other Jefferson was right in maintaining that the latter is really the more to be dreaded because its beginnings are so terribly insidious. John Fiske. |