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No nation can achieve real greatness if its people 

 are not both essentially moral and essentially manly ; 

 both sets of qualities are necessary. It is an admi- 

 rable thing to possess refinement and cultivation, but 

 the price is too dear if they must be paid for at the 

 cost of the rugged fighting qualities which make 

 a man able to do a man's work in the world, and 

 which make his heart beat with that kind of love of 

 country which is shown not only in readiness to try 

 to make her civic life better, but also to stand up 

 manfully for her when her honor and influence are 

 at stake in a dispute with a foreign power. A heavy 

 responsibility rests on the educated man. It is a 

 double discredit to him to go wrong, whether his 

 shortcomings take the form of shirking his every- 

 day civic duties, or of abandonment of the nation's 

 rights in a foreign quarrel. He must no more be 

 misled by the sneers of those who always write "pa- 

 triotism" between inverted commas than by the 

 coarser, but equally dangerous, ridicule of the poli- 

 ticians who jeer at "reform." It is as unmanly to 

 be taunted by one set of critics into cowardice as it 

 is to be taunted by the other set into dishonesty. 



There are many upright and honorable men who 

 take the wrong side, that is, the anti-American side, 

 of the Monroe Doctrine because they are too short- 

 sighted or too unimaginative to realize the hurt to 

 the nation that would be caused by the adoption of 

 their views. There are other men who take the 

 wrong view simply because they have not thought 

 much of the matter, or are in unfortunate surround- 



