the mob. In monarchies and aristocracies it 

 is the mob that rules. It is puerile to sup- 

 pose that kingdoms are made by kings. 

 The king could do nothing if the mob did 

 not throw up its cap when the king rides by. 

 The king is consented to by the mob be- 

 cause of that which in him is mob-like. The 

 mob loves glory and prizes. So does the 

 king. If he loved beauty and justice, the 

 mob would shout for him while the fine 

 words were sounding in the air; but he 

 could never celebrate a jubilee or establish 

 a dynasty. When the crowd gets ready to 

 demand justice and beauty, it becomes a 

 democracy, and has done with kings." 



It was at Lexington that "the embattled 

 farmers" ** fired the shot heard round the 

 world." To them life was of less value than 

 a principle, the principle written by Crom- 

 well on the statute-book of Parliament: 

 "All just powers under God are derived 

 from the consent of the people." Since the 

 war of the Revolution many patriotic soci- 

 eties have arisen in the United States. 

 These may be typified by the association of 

 the "Sons of the Revolution," and of the 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



Signifi- 

 cance of 

 ''Sons of 

 the Reso- 

 lution ' ' 



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