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Updated: June 29, 2025
Here in the "True Presbyterian", of New York, giving the decision of a clerical man of the world: "There is no debasement in it. It might have existed in Paradise, and it may continue through the Millenium."
And traveling in this army that seemed to march before Lane's eyes were the slackers, like Mackay and Swann, representative of that horde of cowards who in one way or another had avoided the service the young men who put comfort, ease, safety, pleasure before all else who had no ideal of womanhood who could not have protected women who would not fight to save women from the apish Huns who remained behind to fall in the wreck of the war's degeneration, and to dance, to drink, to smoke, to ride the women to their debasement.
Christine is meek;, but, while neither word nor look betrays the weakness, still she feels the load that crushes us both. She has long accustomed herself to look at all her own merits through the medium of this debasement, and has set too low a value on her own excellent qualities.
You ask O! respectable gentleman or lady; O! man in the thick of business; O! self-indulgent Epicurean; and the answer comes to you not from the ground merely, but from the universal air the answer of kindred pulses, of confluent sympathies, of an inseparable humanity though it swarms in rags, and riots in shame, and seems far off from you in its hell of debasement and despair.
The majesty of the Governor of the universe is seen in nothing more impressively than in the direction which the wrath of man is made to take. Now these remarks apply to the Crusades. They represent prevailing ideas. Their origin was a universal hatred of Mohammedans. Like all the institutions of the Middle Ages, they were a great contradiction, debasement in glory, and glory in debasement.
A barbarous rage has laid waste the fairest monuments of art whatever could embellish society, or contribute to soften existence, has disappeared under the reign of these modern Goths even the necessaries of life are becoming rare and inadequate to the consumption the rich are plundered and persecuted, yet the poor are in want the national credit is in the last stage of debasement, yet an immense debt is created, and daily accumulating; and apprehension, distrust, and misery, are almost universal.
To Henry Colden Philadelphia, Nov. 2. Ah, my friend, how mortifying are those proofs of thy excellence? How deep is that debasement into which I am sunk, when I compare myself with thee! It cannot be want of love that makes thee so easily give me up. My feeble and jealous heart is ever prone to suspect; yet I ought at length to be above these ungenerous surmises.
And there, for one sole end, the swallowing of fiery stimulant, come the nightly thousands from the gay and well dressed, to the haggard and tattered, in the last stage of debasement. The end is the same by how different paths! Here, they dance along the path to ruin, with flowers and music; there, they cast themselves bodily, as it were, into the lake of fire. Wednesday, June 15.
If I chose I could do it, and none but myself could gauge the depth of my debasement. No eye could discern the high level ground now on which I stood and the morass that swam before me. I should marry this girl and the world asks no more. This other lower life that lay in my power appealed to me in all its sweetness this woman as she would be when mine.
All these classes, by instinct and the baser kinds of reason also, will be doing their best to check the rise in prices, stop and reverse the advance in wages, prevent the debasement of the circulation, and facilitate the return to a gold standard and a repressive social stability.
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