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Excerpt from An Oration Before the Washington Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania: Delivered in the Hall of the Musical Fund Society, on the 22nd of February, 1827
Its Era also deserves our attention. Nations, like individuals, have their progressive advancement. The human mind, like the natural world, has its gradual transition from darkness to light. There is a period, in which the individual cannot perceive the real na ture of things around him. There is also a period in which the moral darkness is such, that nations - that mankind at large, - are perfectly blind to their actual condition. But there is also a state beyond which light predominates; and then man rises In his might to shake off the chains that bind him. Such was the state when the Revolution began. At no preceding date, perhaps, could it have been successful. How indeed could such a contest have existed before the Reformation? Whence would have sprung its causes before the overthrow of the scholastic, and the introduction of the Baconian, philosophy? What could have taught our ancestors the nature of their religious rights, before the persecution Of the Puritans by Elizabeth and James I? Where would they have learned the great principles of government and the foundations, of civil freedom, before the first Charles was deposed and the second James had abdi cated? All these great events and others which followed them, gave a different impulse to the inquiries of men.
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