The Wonderful Story of Washington

The Wonderful Story of Washington - and the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America

The ingenuous youth of America will hold up to themselves the bright model of Washingtons example, and study to be what they behold; they will contemplate his character, till all his virtues spread out and display themselves to their delighted vision; as the earliest astronomers, the shepherds on the plains of Babylon, gazed at the stars till they saw them form into clusters and constellations, overpowering at length the eyes of the beholders with the united blaze of a thousand lights.Webster. America for Americans is a patriotic appeal that has arisen in many a political crisis, and then gone to pieces in the confusions of what we mean by Americans and America. American Liberty has been a goddess of worship from the beginning, and yet we find ourselves in an endless turmoil concerning what we mean by American liberty. Washington and his associate patriots wrote a great definition in history and established that definition in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, but human meaning, like the skies, seems hard to get clear and to keep clear. To know clearly what the definition of freedom[Pg 2] means and to promote it in the right-minded way, is the patriotism that identifies anyone anywhere as being American. The makers of America loved the right-minded way, and their primary test of justice unfailingly required, as a basis, the personal liberty that has been described to us by all as freedom to do the right that wrongs no one. To these rights of man, they gave the last full measure of devotion, as Lincoln defined patriotism, for the birth of a new freedom under God. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41012
Author: Stevens, C. M. (Charles McClellan)
Release Date: Oct 10, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English