When a Man Comes to Himself
When a Man Comes to Himself
"Live by enthusiasm," urges the distinguished author; "don't be driven by necessity. And if you fail, make failure a stepping-stone."
Book Excerpt
The practicability
of every reform is determined absolutely and always by "the
circumstances of the case," and only those who put themselves into
the midst of affairs, either by action or by observation, can known
what those circumstances are or perceive what they signify. No
statesman dreams of doing whatever he pleases; he knows that it does
not follow that because a point of morals or of policy is obvious to
him it will be obvious to the nation, or even to his own friends;
and it is the strength of a democratic polity that there are so many
minds to be consulted and brought to agreement, and that nothing can
be wisely done for which the thought, and a good deal more than the
thought, of the country, its sentiment and its purpose, have not
been prepared. Social reform is a matter of cooperation, and if it
be of a novel kind, requires an infinite deal of converting to bring
the efficient majority to believe in it and support it. Without
their agreement and support it is impossible.
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