Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
We celebrate to-night the memory of a great man of Letters. What strikes me most about that glorious group of New England writers――Emerson and Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Thoreau, Motley, Holmes, and Lowell――is a certain measure and magnanimity. They were rare men and fin...
We celebrate to-night the memory of a great man of Letters. What strikes me most about that glorious group of New England writers――Emerson and Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, T...
2. Part 2At a very typical and honoured old Public School, he to whom you are listening passed on the whole a happy time; but what an odd life educationally speaking! We lived rather lik...
3. Part 3Did we? Do we? That is the great question. Is our gaze really fixed on the far horizon? Or do we only dream it; and have the slain no comfort in their untimely darkness; the mai...
4. Part 4This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy. When he surveys the world around――“the wondrous things which there abound,” the prophet closes foolis...
5. Part 5In 1910, walking in Hyde Park with a writer friend, I remember saying: “It’s the hereditary autocracies in Germany, Austria, and Russia which make the danger of war.” He did not...
6. Part 6The League of Nations is but an incorporation of the co-operative principle in world affairs. We have seen to what the lack of that principle leads both in international and nat...