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Show THREE BUILDERS OF NATIONS Cavour, William the Silent and George Washington Never Yielded to Despotic Ideals. As a nntlon-muker Cuvour stnnda with William the Silent and Geoigo Washington. Each or these men fought through the agony of a war of liberation, yet never yielded for a moment mo-ment to the mllllarlut or despotic Ideals so liable to be bred In time of crlnls; each loved free Institutions with tils whole heart; each could have said as truly as William the Silent, "I was always on the side of the people;" yet each avoided the special faults of the demagogue as completely as Wellington Well-ington or Peel; each planted Justice and mercy amid the chaos of wrath and revolution; each kept an heroic equanimity of temper toward all their supporters, even toward the foolish and the false who bade fair to ruin their work; finally, each died leaving as his handiwork & nation whose every ev-ery merit Is symbolized In the life of the man who made It, whoso every defect de-fect Is due to the tradition which be started belli too lofty for Imitation. Imita-tion. If Americans can boast that America Is more true to the traditions of Washington than Italy Is true to the traditions of Cavour, they may be sure that their country Is reaping the benefit In due proportion. Measures and policies and constitutions must change with changing time, but the spirit tNot Inspires a just policy Is the same In the eighteenth, the nineteenth, nine-teenth, and the twentieth centuries. Geortfe Macaulay Trevelyan, 'n the Atlantic. |