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Excerpt from James Russell Lowell: An Address
Audience culled from many colleges and not predisposed to admire, in shuddering delight by the classic charm of his man ner and the brilliancy of his unsparing censure of educated men as recreant to political progress. The orator was nearly seventy years old. He was conscious that he should never speak again upon a greater occasion nor to a more distin guished audience, and as his discourse ended, as if to express completely the princ1p1e of his own life and of the cause to which it had been devoted, and the Spirit which alone could secure the happy future of his country if it was to justify the hope of her children, he repeated the words of Lowell New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth.
They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of truth.
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