hard. Your own local history, look but deep enough, tells the tale
you must take to heart. Here upon our own seaboard, as truly as ever
in the West, was once a national frontier, with an elder East beyond
the seas. Here, too, various peoples combined, and elements separated
elsewhere effected a tolerant and wholesome mixture. Here, too, the
national stream flowed full and strong, bearing a thousand things upon
its currents. Let us resume and keep the vision of that time; know
ourselves, our neighbors, our destiny, with lifted and open eyes; see
our history truly, in its great proportions; be ourselves liberal as
the great principles we profess; and so be the people who might have
again the heroic adventures and do again the heroic work of the past.
’Tis thus we shall renew our youth and secure our age against decay.
Transcriber’s Notes
Simple typographical errors were corrected.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.