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Excerpt from The Mission of the Scot in Canada
In the course of my correspondence with your committee I came to understand that a discussion of the subject of my paper and of the views expressed upon it would be a welcome, as it has been a usual feature of the evening's proceedings. I shaped my remarks accordingly. You will find them bristling with points requiring, and I h0pe, deserving, discussion, for I wish to build on a rock, not on sand. But I desire to build. I have been fairly long in the fight and mere pleasure now jades. Life is real, life is earnest and the grave is not its goal. Year by year that truth makes a deeper impression. There is so much to do, and sad to say the laborers are com paratively few. We have many orators, but oratory without substance becomes weari some. It may be likened to a glass of good Scotch whiskey; it exhilarates in the even ing, with the morning the effect has passed away. Ours is an age of haste and hurry; the lotus eater on the enchanted shore is an anachronism; we understand better the ambi tion of the Village Blacksmith to have some thing attempted, something done.
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