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CONSERVATION 



the national conscience in stemming its 

 wayward course, in outlining the path 

 of its future development, in drawing 

 the large outlines of the only kind of 

 democracy in which politics and ethics 

 can ever coincide ; if he has drawn the 

 line of cleavage where it belongs, and 

 has set the party of State Rights over 

 against the party of Nationality ; if he 

 has opposed the principles of anarchy 

 ana 3<jv.iality, the motives of egoism and 



altruism, the parties of self-interest and 

 the general welfare, the philosophy un- 

 derlying the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence and that of the Constitution of 

 the United States ; if he has with suf- 

 ficient distinctness contrasted a political 

 atomism with the social organism, the 

 historian of a future age will have the 

 right to compare him with the Fathers 

 of his Country as a constructive states- 

 man. 



