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How small a thing to the eye of the scientist were the human passions and designs, the promptings of instinct and nature; but to the eye of the poet how sublime and august! These tiny creatures could be dominated by emotions love, honour, patriotism, liberty which could enable them, frail and impotent as they were, to rise majestically above the darkest and saddest limitations of immortality.
It began to look as if other means would have to be resorted to the saddest of all, perhaps time. Sometime, somewhere, after days or even weeks, ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred miles down the river, a sodden, unrecognizable body would be washed up on sand-bar or mud-bank. It was a sickening thought. "Have all the river towns been telegraphed?" asked a bystander, of the mayor.
It may seem strange that Henrietta should have spread broadcast a grief which most people would keep hidden in their own hearts. But it is one of the saddest things about lonely people, that, having no proper confidant, they tell to all and sundry what ought never to be told to more than one.
In both instances, heart and head are, for a time, out of harmony; their balance broken. The man descends closer and closer to the lower animals. From the angels he glides farther and farther away. "The destructive effects of alcohol on the human mind present, finally, the saddest picture of its influence. The most æsthetic artist can find no angel here.
Blaine must have met the glance of his late associates in President Arthur's Cabinet Folger, of impressive manner; Lincoln, to whom the proceedings of the day rekindled the saddest of recollections; Brewster, noticeable by the quaintness of his dress; Kirkwood, of plain, homely ways and dress, and the Creole-like Hunt. By the side of these Mr.
Poor fellow! his ambition, which till then had been asleep, was aroused. How soon was it, with all his earthly hopes, cut short! Such has been many another young soldier's fate. We lost that day alone, 22 officers and 230 men killed, and 71 officers and upwards of 1000 men wounded. Altogether it was about the saddest of the whole war.
That was the saddest moment of August Bordine's life. Not even when his own sister died six years before had he felt the solemn weight of sadness more deeply. Victoria had been his friend. She was not over-bright, yet she was kind and tender of heart.
III. Another great and precious principle enthroned in the founding of our commonwealth was that of religious liberty. One of the saddest chapters in human history is that of persecution on account of religious convictions the imposition of penalties, torture, and death by the sword of government on worthy people because of their honest opinions of duty to Almighty God.
"I need not say how I felt the remarks on 'Wuthering Heights; they woke the saddest yet most grateful feelings; they are true, they are discriminating, they are full of late justice, but it is very late alas! in one sense, TOO late. Of this, however, and of the pang of regret for a light prematurely extinguished, it is not wise to speak much.
It is certain that before the war began it would not have been thought possible to raise the billions which in four years have been expended on sheer destruction; and one of our saddest reflections today must be of regret that a small portion of these billions which have gone to waste could not have been expended for the very purposes outlined education, public health, the advancement of science and art, public buildings, roads and parks, and the proper housing of populations!
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