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But if you see the American flag you'll see it waved by a little girl from the deck of a British liner. This means that we are losing in marine freights and foreign trade billions of dollars every year. And it means more and worse than that. For it's ship building and ship sailing that take a nation's men out of their ruts, whip up their minds and imaginations, make 'em broad as the seven seas.
The unveiling of war memorials, parades of war veterans, flag-waggings, fiery speeches and guard-mounting are not of themselves enough to prepare a nation's mind for the dangers that threaten. Conviction is always more lasting than enthusiasm.
The nation then, for the first time, knew the character of its ancestors; for these were not spectres not they, indeed, nor phantoms of the brain, but gaunt flesh and blood, or glad and glorious; base-born cottage churls of the olden time, because Scottish, became familiar to the love of the nation's heart, and so to its pride did the high born lineage of palace kings. * We know now the character of our own people as it showed itself in war and peace in palace, castle, hall, hut, hovel, and shieling through centuries of advancing civilization."
The punishment was greater than the offense, and dictated by malice and revenge; it was a diabolical act, and will soil the page of our nation's history." So thought Edward, as he paced before the cottage, until he was summoned in by Pablo to their evening meal. "Edward," said Edith, "scold Pablo; he has been ill-treating my poor cat; he is a cruel boy." Pablo laughed.
To let the nation's war experience work to such an outcome, the season of war would have to be prolonged beyond what either the hopes or the fears of the community have yet contemplated; but the point is after all worth noting, as being within the premises of the case, that there is herein a remote contingency of losing, at least for a time, that unformulated clause in the British constitution which has hitherto restricted the holding of responsible office to men of pedigree and of gentle breeding, or at least of very grave pecuniary weight; so grave as to make the incumbents virtual gentlemen, with a virtual pedigree, and with a virtual gentleman's accentuated sense of class interest.
The security and perpetuity of the state and of the individual in so far an he is a social animal, depend upon the victory of the national interest as represented both in the assurance of the national profit and in the domination of the nation's friends.
The mother groaned. At her own house lay a daughter in that collapse which had followed the overtaxed courage of the first shock. Here lay Hamilton, her oldest; her Napoleonic boy for whose condign punishment a nation's voice cried out. To her they were simply her children, equally dear. Only one child was left her in his proper condition of mind and body.
The schools, as we saw, carried on the old classical tradition, bringing forth monuments like the Annals of Tigearnac; and there was the same vigor and vital force in every part of the nation's life. The coming of the Normans changed this in no essential regard.
If the reader thinks it is pushing logic too far to question a nation's right of property in the territory which it possesses, I will simply remind him of the fact that at all ages the results of the fictitious right of national property have been pretensions to suzerainty, tributes, monarchical privileges, statute-labor, quotas of men and money, supplies of merchandise, &c.; ending finally in refusals to pay taxes, insurrections, wars, and depopulations.
Now, therefore, he looked eagerly at his mother and said: "What is it he wishes to say Canst thou not tell me thyself?" The Lady of Dynevor paused awhile in thought; and when she spoke, it did not appear to be in direct reply to her son's question. "Wendot," she said gravely, "thou hast heard much talk of the troubled state of these times and of the nation's affairs.
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