would be easier if we had the men who 

 ought to havebeen to help us in their settle- 

 ment. " The hencoop is always full, what- 

 ever thenumber of hens." Our country fills 

 up like an overflowing marsh ; but the men 

 that are are not all of the same lineage with 

 the men who might have been. 



To some extent, at least, Vir has given 

 place to Homo in our American cities and in 

 our public life. Among us, perchance, there 

 might have been many a Brutus who would 

 have brooked the Eternal Devil to take his 

 seat in the Republic as easily as some of the 

 tyrants to which we adjust ourselves in hope- 

 less uncomplaint. 



It is related that Guizot once asked this 

 question of James Russell Lowell: "How 

 long will the Republic endure?" "So long as 

 the ideas of its founders remain dominant," 

 was the answer. But again we have this ques- 

 tion: "How long will the ideas of its found- 

 ers remain dominant ?" Just so long as the 

 blood of the founders remains dominant in 

 the blood of its people. Not necessarily the 

 blood of the Puritans and the Virginians 

 alone, the original creators of the land of 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



Ho'w long 

 uuill the 

 Republic 

 last? 



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