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Show It is not enough to urge and entreat, to threaten and coax, to compel and to persuade men and women to ' do one thing and avoid another. We must rather open up to their minds the reason rea-son why one thing is right and another anoth-er wrong; we must teach them the laws of life and the principles that underlie un-derlie human action, and thus lead them . to a living conviction of duty which ,wlll be vastly superior, as . an authority in their lives, to any dictum of others. The hope of Truth -grows stronger day by day; I hear the soul of Man around me waking, Like a great sea, its frozen fetters breaking, And flinging up to heaven its sunlit spray, Tossing huge continents in scornful Play, And crushing them with din of grinding thunder, That makes, old emptiness stare in wonder; The memory of a glory passed away Lingers in every heart, as In the shell Resounds the bygone freedom of the sea, And every hour new signs of promise tell That the great soul shall once again be free. For high, and yet more high, the murmurs swell Of inward strife for truth and liberty. lib-erty. James Itussell Lowell. |