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The ancients, whose names and fame have come down to us, taught by conversations, discussions, and lectures; the moderns, as Carlyle, Brownson, and Emerson, by lectures, essays, and reviews. But these systems are quite inadequate to meet the wants of American civilization.
Still, as I had spoken of it, I might as well learn all that I could. "What sort of a man was this Brownson?" I asked. "What reason was there that Miss Marcia Raynor should have cared for him?" "He was a fine man," said Walkirk. "He was educated, good-looking, rich. He was young enough, but had been a bachelor too long, perhaps, and had very independent ways.
He was asked: "Don't you think we might have a memorial tablet to Dr. Brownson in our church?" "Yes! Of all the men I ever knew, he had most influence over me." "When you were in early life?" "Yes, of course. Oh! in after life no man has had influence with me, but only God."
But that the impressions he received were permanent, in their suggestiveness at least, is witnessed by an article in this magazine for April, 1887, entitled "Dr. Brownson and Bishop Fitzpatrick," as well as by the several references to this period which occur in the memoranda.
If Captain Brownson should fail to do all in his power to escape from what his judgment tells him is overwhelming odds, he'd find himself in trouble. Discretion is the better part of valor, even in the navy." Suddenly we began to notice a peculiar glow tinging the darkness, and reflecting from the polished parts of the gun. It came suddenly and with a spurt of ruddy light unmistakable.
The man who has any sympathy in his heart and is not guided by Catholic ethics, if he reasons at all on public affairs, will become a socialist of some school or other. Says Dr. Brownson in The Convert, p. 101: "The end of man, as disclosed by my creed of 1829, is obviously an earthly end, to be attained in this life.
The impression that I gathered from my intercourse with him, which was boyishly intimate and affectionate, was that of all 'the apostles of the newness, as they were gayly called, whose counsel he sought, Brownson was the most satisfactory to him.
"Yes, yes," he said; "I am a convert. It was long ago, though. I was a young Presbyterian minister, and it's odd how it came about. Newman didn't get me, though he shook his own tree into the Pope's lap; I wasn't on the tree. It was Brownson a Presbyterian like myself who did the business. You don't know him? Pity! He's worth knowing.
Brownson found he had mistaken his church, and went over to the Roman Catholic establishment, of which he became and remained to his dying day one of the most stalwart champions. Nature is prolific and ambidextrous.
Her coming created some excitement, and the "Yankee's" crew promptly lined the railing. "What's that object on the deck?" asked "Stump," pointing to a long brass cylinder lying abaft the after conning tower. "It's a torpedo, but not like those used in our navy," replied "Hay." Captain Brownson leaned over the end of the bridge and waved his hand to Lieutenant Fremont, the "Porter's" commander.
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