Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Address delivered at the quarter-centennial celebration of the admission of Kansas as a state

In Grecian mythology it is related that Zeus, warned by an oracle that the son of his spouse, Metis, would snatch supremacy from him, swallowed both Metis and her unborn child. When the time of birth arrived, Zeus felt a violent pain in his head, and in his agony requested Hep...