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With a scalpel most logically keen Mr. George has dissected Mr. Spencer’s philosophy of land, and with almost Indian exultation he exposes its eccentricities and contradictions. As was inevitable, for we cannot get along without it, the old familiar Galileo moral is brought in by Mr. George to prove that “still it moves.” He is right; for if it is ethically and politically true, as declared by Mr. Spencer in 1850, “that equity does not permit property in land,” it will be true forever, and no extremity of recantation can make it false. The attempt of Mr. Spencer to show by duplicate metaphysics that his later opinions concerning land are not inconsistent with the occult meaning of “Social Statics,” is a failure. It cannot stand a moment before the searching analysis and legible comparisons of Mr. George.
The attempt to resolve a concrete subject, such as government ownership of land, into abstract terms of justice limited or expanded by the right of some private person to the house on the land, and the barn, and the well, and the fences, and the apple-trees, and other appurtenances, corporeal and incorporeal, has involved Mr. George himself, as well as Mr. Spencer, in some confusion of thought, and has entangled both of them in varieties of statement not easy to reconcile. This might be due to obscure definitions and multiplied explanations, or to changes of opinion, but Mr. George asserts that Mr. Spencer’s inconsistencies are the result of moral and intellectual dishonesty, prompting him to explain away his principles to propitiate the landlords and other aristocratic persons who admitted him into their high society after he became eminent, and before they knew that his philosophy denied the right of private property in land.
In his letter to the _Times_, apologising for “Social Statics,” Mr. Spencer said:
“The work referred to—“Social Statics”—was intended to be a system of Political Ethics—absolute political ethics, or that which ought to be, as distinguished from relative political ethics, or that which is at present the nearest practical approach to it.”
And then the philosopher becomes a politician and frames for the landed and the landless a moral code, ambidextrous and elastic as a party platform. Duty, justice, right, and truth, lose all their absolute qualities, and become relative to expediency and our own convenience. He teaches us to oppose wrongs until they become vested rights and then defend them. He makes ethics changeable as our coats, and the man who can afford two suits of clothes may have two suits of ethics, an “absolute” suit for Sundays and a “relative” suit for every day; an “abstract” suit for wearing about the house, and a “practical” suit for business purposes. He may wear a suit of “pure” ethics when buying, and a suit of “applied” ethics when selling; and so, at last, by those harlequin morals, it happens that what we ought to do has no relation at all to “that which ought to be.” Those pure subtleties and applied subterfuges make Mr. Spencer an easy mark for the indignant sarcasm of Mr. George, who shows what Mr. Spencer thought of absolute and relative ethics when he said in “Social Statics”:
“When a man admits that an act is ‘theoretically just,’ he admits it to be that which, in strict duty, should be done. By ‘true to principle’ he means in harmony with the conduct decreed for us. The course which he calls ‘abstractedly right,’ he believes to be the appointed way to human happiness. There is no escape. The expressions mean this or they mean nothing.”
The book is written in an angry vein, and the nicknames “traitor,” “juggler,” “apostate,” and the like, add nothing to the value of its argument; they only give bitterness to the censure. They are not to be commended, although they ought to be excused, for they sprang out of “a tempest of provocation.” Mr. George has been fighting under the banner of Herbert Spencer, and he feels like a soldier whose general deserts him in the battle and then disowns him altogether.
The only rational explanation of Mr. Spencer’s letters to the _Times_ and the _St. James’s Gazette_ is that he has radically changed his opinions about the private ownership of land: and his timid, uncertain, and equivocal way of saying so makes him look very much like the “perplexed philosopher” that Mr. George describes. At the same time it must be noticed that Mr. George himself is not so radical in this last book as he was in “Progress and Poverty.” His principles appear to be the same, but in the application of remedies he is milder than he was about fourteen years ago. When he reaches Mr. Spencer’s age he may be just as conservative and “perplexed” as that philosopher is now.
M. M. TRUMBULL.
FOOTNOTES:
[85] Mr. Salter’s name for his theory.
[86] Says Mr. Salter: “Idealism (as here stated) is not, however, itself a solution, being only a clear statement of what the problem is; and for all that such idealism can say, the problem may be insoluble.”
PERIODICALS.
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PSYCHOLOGIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE DER SINNESORGANE.
CONTENTS: Vol. IV. Nos. 4 and 5.
DIE GRUNDEMPFINDUNGEN IN NORMALEN UND ANOMALEN FARBENSYSTEMEN UND IHRE ITENSITÄTSVERTEILUNG IM SPEKTRUM. By _Arthur König and Conrad Dieterici_.
IST EINE CEREBRALE ENTSTEHUNG VON SCHWEBUNGEN MÖGLICH? By _Karl L. Schaefer_.
UEBER EINIGE NEUERE FORTSCHRITTE IN DER ANATOMIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE DER ARTHROPODENAUGEN. By _Sigmund Fuchs_.
LITTERATURBERICHT.
CONTENTS: Vol. IV. No. 6.
DAS TAPETUM LUCIDUM BEI DURCHLEUCHTUNG DES AUGES. By _Ziem_.
BERICHTIGUNG ZU PROFESSOR MÜNSTERBERGS BEITRÄGEN ZUR EXPERIMENTELLEN PSYCHOLOGIE, HEFT 4. By _G. E. Müller_.
LITTERATURBERICHT. (Hamburg and Leipsic: Leopold Voss.)
PHILOSOPHISCHE MONATSHEFTE.
CONTENTS: Vol. XXIX. No. 3 and 4.
DIE ÄLTESTE FASSUNG VON MELANCHTHONS ETHIK. By _H. Heineck_.
DIE MODERNE ENERGETIK IN IHRER BEDEUTUNG FÜR DIE ERKENNTNISSKRITIK, II. By _K. Lasswitz_.
DIE SITTLICHE FRAGE EINE SOCIALE FRAGE, II. By _F. Staudinger_.
JOHANN EDUARD ERDMANN. By _B. Erdmann_.
LITTERATURBERICHT. (Berlin: Dr. R. Salinger.)
VIERTELJAHRSSCHRIFT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE PHILOSOPHIE.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVI. No. 4.
DIE STATISCHEN FUNCTIONEN DES OHRLABYRINTHES UND IHRE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DEN RAUMEMPFINDUNGEN. (Part I.) By _R. Wlassak_.
UEBER VERSCHMELZUNG UND ANALYSE. Eine psychologische Studie. (Part I.) By _H. Cornelius_.
DIE WICHTIGKEIT DER REPRODUCTIONSGEFÜHLE FÜR DIE ENTWICKLUNG UND BILDUNG DES MENSCHEN. By _J. Zahlfleisch_.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVII. No. 1.
UEBER DEN BEGRIFF DER WISSENSCHAFT BEI GALILEI. By _A. Riehl_.
DIE STATISCHEN FUNCTIONEN DES OHRLABYRINTHES UND IHRE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DEN RAUMEMPFINDUNGEN. (Concluded.) By _R. Wlassak_.
UEBER VERSCHMELZUNG UND ANALYSE. Eine psychologische Studie. (Concluded.) By _H. Cornelius_.
WERTHTHEORIE UND ETHIK. (Part I.) By _Chr. Ehrenfels_.
A. VOIGT’S “ELEMENTARE LOGIK” UND MEINE DARLEGUNGEN ZUR LOGIK DES LOGISCHEN CALCULS. By _E. G. Husserl_. (Leipsic: O. R. Reisland.)
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE UND PHILOSOPHISCHE KRITIK.
CONTENTS: Vol. CI. No. 2.
DOXOGRAPHISCHES ZUR LEHRE VOM ΤΈΛΟΣ. By _A. Döring_.
ERNST PLATNER’S UND KANT’S ERKENNTNISSTHEORIE MIT BESONDERER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG VON TETENS UND AENESIDEMUS. By _Dr. Arthur Wreschner_.
JAHRESBERICHT ÜBER ERSCHEINUNGEN DER PHILOSOPHISCHEN LITTERATUR IN FRANZÖSISCHER SPRACHE AUS DEN JAHREN 1889 UND 1890. By _Adolph Lasson_.
RECENSIONEN. (Leipsic: C. E. M. Pfeffer.)
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY.
CONTENTS: Vol. V. No. 2.
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTARY MOTOR ABILITY. By _Wm. L. Bryan_.
THE TRAINING OF ANIMALS. By _James E. LeRossignol_, Ph. D.
ON THE JUDGMENT OF ANGLES AND POSITIONS OF LINES. By _Joseph Jastrow_, Ph. D.
STATISTICS OF “UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION.” By _Charles M. Child_.
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. By _Mary Whiton Calkins_. (Worcester: J. H. Orpha.)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS.
CONTENTS: Vol. III. No. 2.
THE ETHICS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. _Prof. Franklin H. Giddings._
DID THE ROMANS DEGENERATE? By _Mary Emily Case_.
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PRACTICAL LIFE. By _Prof. William Cunningham_.
GERMAN CHARACTER AS REFLECTED IN THE NATIONAL LIFE AND LITERATURE. By _Richard M. Meyer_, Ph. D.
BOOK REVIEWS. (Philadelphia: _International Journal of Ethics_, 118 South Twelfth Street.)
THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW.
CONTENTS: Vol. II. No. 1.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. By _Prof. Otto Pfleiderer_.
AN ANCIENT PESSIMIST. By _Prof. J. Clark Murray_.
THE CONCEPT OF LAW IN ETHICS. By _Prof. F. C. French_.
J. H. LAMBERT. By _Harold Griffing_.
CONTENTS: Vol. II. No. 2.
KANT’S CRITICAL PROBLEM. By _J. G. Schurman_.
EPISTEMOLOGY IN LOCKE AND KANT. By _Prof. Andrew Seth_.
ANTHROPOMETRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. By _Prof. E. B. Titchener_.
DISCUSSIONS: Reality and Idealism. By _David G. Ritchie_ and _F. C. S. Schiller_.
BOOK REVIEWS. (Boston, New York, Chicago: Ginn & Company.)
THE NEW WORLD.
CONTENTS: Vol. II. No. 5.
THE PLACE OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE. By _Orello Cone_.
THE FOLK-SONG OF ISRAEL IN THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHETS. By _Karl Budde_.
COSMOPOLITAN RELIGION. By _C. A. Bartol_.
THE ALLEGED SOCIALISM OF THE PROPHETS. By _A. W. Benn_.
WHITTIER’S SPIRITUAL CAREER. By _John W. Chadwick_.
THE PERSONAL FACTOR IN BIBLICAL INSPIRATION. By _Marvin R. Vincent_.
ISRAEL IN EGYPT. By _C. H. Toy_.
THE BRIGGS HERESY TRIAL. By _C. R. Gillett_. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
REVUE PHILOSOPHIQUE.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVII. No. 12.
LE MOUVEMENT PHILOSOPHIQUE EN RUSSIE: II. LA PHILOSOPHIE DE HEGEL ET LES CERCLES PHILOSOPHIQUES. By _E. Lannes_.
LA COMPOSITION MUSICALE ET LES LOIS GÉNÉRALES DE LA PSYCHOLOGIE. By _M. Paulhan_.
LA PSYCHOLOGIE DE W. JAMES (2nd article). By _L. Marillier_.
ANALYSES ET COMPTES RENDUS.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVIII. No. 1.
LA PSYCHOLOGIE DE W. JAMES (3d article). By _L. Marillier_.
LA CROYANCE MÉTAPHYSIQUE. By _J. Gourd_.
LA BEAUTÉ PLASTIQUE. By _L. Couturat_.
ANALYSES ET COMPTES RENDUS.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVIII. No. 2.
L’UNITÉ DE LA PHILOSOPHIE. By _P. Janet_.
L’EXPRESSION OBJECTIVE EN MUSIQUE D’APRÈS LE LANGAGE INSTINCTIF. By _J. Combarieu_.
LA PSYCHOLOGIE DE W. JAMES. (Concluded.) By _L. Marillier_.
REVUE DES PÉRIODIQUES ÉTRANGERS. (Paris: Félix Alcan.)
CONTENTS: Vol. XVIII. No. 3.
RECHERCHES SUR LA SUCCESSION DES PHÉNOMÈNES PSYCHOLOGIQUES. By _B. Bourdon_.
L’AMOUR EST-IL UN ÉTAT PATHOLOGIQUE? By _G. Danville_.
SUR UN EFFET PARTICULIER DE L’ATTENTION APPLIQUÉE AUX IMAGES. By _André Lalande_.
BEAUTÉ ORGANIQUE ET BEAUTÉ PLASTIQUE. By _A. Naville_.
REVUE DE MÉTAPHYSIQUE ET DE MORALE.
CONTENTS: Vol. I. No. 1.
MÉTAPHYSIQUE ET MORALE. By _Félix Ravaisson_.
LE CONTINU MATHÉMATIQUE. By _H. Poincaré_.
ESSAI SUR QUELQUES PROBLÈMES DE PHILOSOPHIE PREMIÈRE. By _F. Rauh_. (Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie.)
VOPROSUI FILOSOFII I PSICHOLOGII.[87]
CONTENTS: Vol. III. No. 15.
THE AIM OF HUMAN LIFE. By _W. Rosanoff_.
THE PROBLEM OF JUDGMENT. By _F. Charitonoff_.
THE POSITIVISM OF KANT. By _A. Kozloff_.
THE BASIS OF THE MORAL DUTY. By _N. Grote_.
A CRITICISM OF MORAL ALTRUISM. By _W. Preobrajensky_.
THE SENSE OF LOVE. By _W. Solowoff_.
THE FOUNDER OF TRANSCENDENTAL MONISM. By _A. Wedensky_.
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN LONDON. By _W. Chige_.
THE QUESTION OF ZOÖPSYCHOLOGY. By _W. Wagner_.
THE LAW OF PERCEPTION. By _N. Lange_. (Moscow, 1892.)
PHILOSOPHISCHES JAHRBUCH.
CONTENTS: Vol. VI. No. 1.
UEBER DIE ACTUALE BESTIMMTHEIT DES UNENDLICH KLEINEN. By _Pohle_.
GASSENDI’S SKEPTICISMUS UND SEINE STELLUNG ZUM MATERIALISMUS. By _Kiefl_.
DER BEGRIFF DES “WAHREN.” By _Franz Schmid_.
DER BEGRIFF DES UNBEWUSSTEN IN PSYCHOLOGISCHER UND ERKENNTNISSTHEORETISCHER HINSICHT BEI ED. V. HARTMANN. By _Achelis_.
DER SUBSTANZBEGRIFF BEI CARTESIUS IM ZUSAMMENHANG MIT DER SCHOLASTISCHEN UND NEUEREN PHILOSOPHIE. (Continued.) By _Carl Ludewig_, S. J. (Fulda, 1893.)
SPHINX.
CONTENTS: Vol. XV. No. 84.
NIRWANA. By _Menetos_.—DIE WIEDERVERKÖRPERUNGSLEHRE IM DRAMA. By _Ludwig Deinhard_.—DIE GNADE. By _Maria Janitschek_.—DAS FERNSEHEN ALS FUNKTION DES TRANSSCENDENTALEN SUBJEKTS. By _Carl du Prel_, Ph. D. (Concluded.)—AN CARL DU PREL. By _Martin Greif_.—SEHEN UND WAHRTRÄUMEN. By _Hermann Haug_.—UEBER DIE SPIRITISTISCHEN PHÄNOMENE VOM PHYSIKALISCHEN STANDPUNKT. By _Dr. Anton Lampa_.—SCHULD UND SÜHNE. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Telepathie. By _M. Const. Hoch_. (Concluded.)—DIE GÖTTIN DES GENUSSES. Eine Traumphantasie. By _Karl Friedr. Jordan_.—FEGFEUER. Nach François Coppée. By _Rudolf Geering_.—GERETTET! By _Raphael von Koeber_, Ph. D.—MELANCHOLIE. By _Carl Vanselow_.—DIE SECHS SCHWÄNE. Ein Beitrag zum Nachweis des Esoterismus im Volksbewusstsein. By _Gottschalk Thorsten_.—GEHEIMNISS. By _Adolf K. W. Hochenegg_.—EINE GEISTERSTIMME. By _Hugo Gozdawa_.—DER BEGRIFF DES ABSOLUTEN. By _O. Plümacher_.
CONTENTS: Vol. XVI, No. 85.
LEBE DEINEM HÖCHSTEN IDEAL GETREU!—A-U-M. By _Menetos_.—PSALMEN. By _Franz Evers_.—MEISTER DER MYSTIK. By _Wilhelm von Saintgeorge_.—AEGYPTENS GROSSE PYRAMIDE. Ein Tempel der Einweihung in die Mysterien. By _Eduard Maitland_.—DIE DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ETHISCHE KULTUR UND HERR VON EGIDY. By _Hugo von Gizycki_.—DIE MYSTIK DES ISLAM. By _Adolf Engelbach_.—EIN ECHTER DIENER GOTTES. By _Dr. Raphael von Koeber_.—EIN GEGNER DES SPIRITISMUS. By _Carl du Prel_.—DIE WISSENSCHAFT DER MAGIER. By _Ludwig Deinhard_.—HEBE DICH WEG VON MIR, SATAN! By _H. v. M._—ANNA HENLE. Ein Erlebnis. By _Hübbe-Schleiden_.—DER STERN DER SINTFLUT. By _Arthur Stentzel_.—SELIGE GEGENWART. By _Maria Janitschek_.—SEHNSUCHT. By _Carl Vanselow_.—DAS ELFLEIN, DAS AUSGING, DEN KÖNIG ZU SUCHEN. By _Bernhard Fabler_.—DER BLINDE PASSAGIER. By _Ludwig Ganghofer_.—FRÜHLINGS ERWACHEN. Für Väter und Erzieher. By _O. Plümacher_.—DREI KNOSPEN. By _Hans von Mosch_. (Brunswick: C. A. Schwetschke & Son.)
We cannot be accused of having any penchant for Theosophy or Spiritualism and find little occasion to praise their productions, which are usually crude and illiterate. But we must confess that Hübbe-Schleiden’s review, the _Sphinx_, is greatly superior to anything in this field we have ever seen. There is artistic taste about it; there is, so far as its position admits of, a certain contact with positive science; there is an attractive popularity without shallowness. All these means are skilfully employed by the editor to impress his ideas, erroneous though they may be, upon his public. If the magazine appeared in English, instead of German, it would at once become the recognised leader in its field.
FOOTNOTES:
[87] _Questions of Philosophy and Psychology._
VOL. III. JULY, 1893. NO. 4.
THE MONIST.
NATIONALISATION OF EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITIES.[88]
A little more than a century ago it was universally believed that, in the nature of things, the vitality of a republic and its size stand in an inverse ratio. The inadaptability of a republican system of government to a state of vast territorial expanse and with a very numerous population was considered an almost axiomatic, i. e. self-evident, truth. When the thirteen English colonies in North America had taken the bold resolution to transform themselves into the United States of America, many an ardent patriot often asked himself, not free from anxious foreboding, whether the Union was within the limits laid down by irreversible political laws, as the utmost extent of republics fit to endure. If it had not been for the size of the country, the doubts as to whether the republican experiment was likely to prove a success, would never have assumed a character, which gave sufficient color to the charge of monarchical tendencies, to make them appear well-founded in the eyes of so many people. When afterwards a new empire was to be added to the Union by the Louisiana purchase, the doubt, as to whether the republican system of government would be equal to the strain put upon it by such an immense enlargement of the area of the United States, played a not unimportant part among the objections of the opposition. That experience has definitively disposed of these ideas, by proving the apprehensions to be unfounded, is no reason to think meanly of the political discernment of those who entertained them. It will not be universally admitted, that experience has thus far proved them to be wholly unfounded also as to consolidated republics. And how can it be wondered at, that at that time the essential difference was not fully realised and understood, which exists between a federal and a consolidated republic with regard to the peculiar dangers and evils apt to arise from this specific cause. Though republican federations had been known to the world for two thousand years, no instruction was to be derived from their history on this head. As to the extent of territory, the consolidated Roman republic, which had consumed its vitality with its growth, could alone be compared with the United States; and as to many of the essential features of their political structure, neither modern nor ancient history furnished an analogy. In the soil of the New World, the germs of European institutions had—adapting themselves to the new conditions—developed into a new type of commonwealth.
It is conceded on all sides that, next to the capacity of the American people for self-government, the United States owe it primarily to the happy blending of the principles of National Union and State Independence that, taking all in all, hitherto their history has been the most striking and convincing vindication of republican institutions; and it is hardly questioned that, but for the happy blending of these two principles, a republic comprising half the North American continent and possessed of all the requisites of vitality never would nor could have existed. Upon their being “an indestructible Union of indestructible States,” the vitality of the United States absolutely depends. That, with this principle as the foundation, the domain of a republic _can_ be almost indefinitely extended, without thereby destroying its vital energies, has been irrefutably demonstrated. But does that mean, that the United States have definitively solved the problem of keeping the vital forces of a republic covering a vast area unimpaired? By no means. Only the preliminary question has been settled by them for all time to come, what the indispensable prerequisite of its solution is, and they have thus far succeeded in preserving their vitality. But even as to themselves, the solution of the problem itself has to be repeated over and over again, not only by generation after generation, but every year and every day. The hour never will, never can come, when the American people can, with impunity, say: the task is accomplished; let us rest and enjoy the fruits. It never can come, because the problem itself is in a continuous state of transformation. Though the changes be so slow, that they are imperceptible to the keenest eye trying to follow them up from year to year, they are none the less real, and if they are not duly heeded, the penalty will have to be paid some time in one way or another. While the fundamental principle, the blending of National Union and State Independence, is irreversible, the attempt to make its application immutable, would be fatal. I say the attempt, for actually to do it, is, in the nature of things, impossible. The American people are not only constitutionally a nation. The civil war did not result in the permanent disruption of the Union, but in welding it more indissolubly together, because, with the single exception of slavery, the facts coincided with the law. In spite of the tremendous sectionalising influence exercised by slavery, the nationalisation in feeling, thinking, and interests had made such progress under the operation and protection of the law of the land, that it could stand as severe a test, as any consolidated State can boast of having stood. The causes, to which it was due, that the facts were in conformity with the law, have been ever since unremittingly at work,—the counter-tendencies have disappeared with the abolishment of slavery,—and, independent of that, those causes are every year acquiring a greater force. The actual nationalisation, therefore, goes steadily on, whether we like it or not, and though the constitutional nationalisation be allowed to remain unchanged. While the legal status under the Constitution may not be altered for ever so long, we are confronted by constantly changing conditions. If we do not conform in what we do and leave undone to the irrepressible changes of this evolutionary process, the maintenance of the principle of blending National Union and State Independence will avail us but little. The vital energies will dry up and ebb away, for while we have kept the form, we have become strangers to the spirit which renders it a magic force. Nor ought the dividing line between political parties to run, as in days of yore, on the question of State rights and consolidation. All discriminating patriots must be as well State rights men as consolidationists, respectively conscious supporters and promoters of further nationalisation. Where and how ought State independence to be strengthened, so as to prevent an over-consolidation by the silent working of those nationalising causes, which it is impossible to stem? and: Where and how ought consolidation, respectively nationalisation, to be promoted, in order to make the working of those nationalising causes conducive to the true interests of the people and to the invigorating of republican institutions? These are the two questions which the American people have constantly to ask themselves. On the discretion and discernment displayed in trying to find the correct answers must it depend, whether the federative principle will work as well in the future, as it has done in the past.
If these propositions must be admitted, it can be proved that in no respect is conscious and systematic nationalisation more imperatively needed than in regard to education. At first sight this assertion may seem worse than extravagant. I am, however, not afraid to submit my case to the jury of the American people, if I am but conceded the legal right of every criminal, to be heard ere I am judged.