![]() ![]() ![]() Fascinating Elizabeth, after a fancfare of drums proclaiming the wreck of the Spanish Armada, is next sen weeping over her lover Essex. Plantagenet and Tudor arose to heights and then passed away, leaving a broad stain of blood behind them. Then warlike John spoke mortal defiance "from the mouth of England" to the Archbishop of Rome and then fought to a finish embattled France. The Ivenci, Hengist the Hardy, and the peerless Alfred clashed and fough their adversaries successfully and then died, mourned over and loved until now. Haughty Boadicea had become so weakened by the continuous combats, she could no longer by her brave example cheet the hearts of her people. The climate, fairly fine, had at times its foggy, its muggy weather, yet it seemed to woo them to remain. The iking, the Dane, the Frank, the Angles, and the Romans have desired to possess he white-cld isle called Albion. England has been for centuries the world's batleground, if it is a secluded water-bound island. What braces the nerves, hardens the threws of the virile embattled hosts, but the danger and the blows of conflict? Resistance is life. Is this world merely a workshop for the lowly? Is it for some, a secret chamber to web wiles to ensnare the innocent? And to the multitude is it for them to be regimented in a great battlefield, to them aįeatureless future, to the conqyuering commander a sinecure, a palace, often a royal scepter? Men, idealists, philanthropists, cry out againt warring of the nations, but whence srength but by struggle. The Cavalier's motto, “Dangers and death to the Devil,” was accepted by many as the best rule to be governed by, as carnage and battles seem to be never ending. It is the fate of man to be harried by war and rumors of war. What gauge is there that can measure the depthless desires of the human heart? What medicament can soothe the heart's unrest? What plummet line can safely sound the wondrous caverns of our existence, and unfold intelligently unto us our manifest, our deathless destiny? Is it not enough to know that there is a high Wisdom that will direct, an all-seeing Eye that will not sleep, and a Love that never faileth? No individual, much less a nation, can idly evaluate the preciousness of time, can wisely spend in wantonness the youth, the manhood, the virility, that should be conserved for the support of the nobler energies, i.e., of venturous valor, national possessions, of farsighted diplomacy, of cherishing, encouraging, and perfecting every effort to make for the betterment of humanity. What brain so broad, that can compass the majesty of the imperialistic intellection of the human mind? The air and the sky seem a part of ourselves. We stand in awe as we contemplate, the Trinity, i.e., earth, fire, and water and their essentiality for the maintenance of the subtle infinities, i.e., life, light, and liberty. “The Blessed Gods-Purge all infection from our air whilst youDo climate here.” ![]()
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