Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Take the way by which these colonies were separated from England. One of two ways of progress was possible, either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought...
...question then arises, is this the necessary law of human progress? Many things go to show that it is not. Not only better results, but better methods may be gradually evolved by the law of evolution itself. The whole question is one of price. The development of the race is to go on. The question is what price shall...
...material evolution of the country at large follows. A nation like this must expend a large part of its labor in developing the material basis of its civilization. But is it not better to labor for progress by evolution than to risk progress by catastrophe? In American business today far too large a part is played by catastrophe...
International questions should progress by evolution, as should our interior affairs. Our colleges must educate more and more men who shall deal with political questions. Our citizens have no adequate idea of the doings of our legislatures. Newspaper reports are poor. A comparison of any report with the Congressional Record will prove the truth of this statement...
...preparing the way for evolution there are some things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by processes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, by appeals to reason rather than to prejudice. Be true to yourself, your University and your country...