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up those heroes who are fit to deal with iron days. 

 We can never as a nation afford to forget that, back 

 of our reason, our understanding, and our common- 

 sense, there must lie, in full strength, the tremen 

 dous fundamental passions, which are not often 

 needed, but which every truly great race must have 

 as a well-spring of motive in time of need. 



I shall end by quoting to you in substance certain 

 words from a minister of the gospel, a most witty 

 man, who was also a philosopher and a man of pro 

 found wisdom, Sydney Smith : 



"The history of the world 'shows us that men are 

 not to be counted by their numbers, but by the fire 

 and vigor of their passions; by their deep sense of 

 injury; by their memory of past glory; by their 

 eagerness for fresh fame; by their clear and steady 

 resolution of either ceasing to live, or of achieving 

 a particular object, which, when it is once formed, 

 strikes off a load of manacles and chains, and gives 

 free space to all heavenly and heroic feelings. All 

 great and extraordinary actions come from the heart. 

 There are seasons in human affairs when qualities, 

 fit enough to conduct the common business of life, 

 are feeble and useless, when men must trust to emo 

 tion for that safety which reason at such times can 

 never give. These are the feelings which led the ten 

 thousand over the Carduchian mountains ; these are 

 the feelings by which a handful of Greeks broke in 



