1872 

into a stable, varied literature without scholarship and hard work, and it should develop on its own lines and in its own spirit, and not under that it should continue to attract attention by peculiarities of dialect- wearisome, whether "cracker" or negro or Yankee--but by being true to the great intellectual activity and agitation, and agitation ethical and questioning, doubt. There was a great deal of froth thrown to the eccentricities of belief and of practice, and a crop of so-called "isms," attained an astonishing degree.html">degree of freedom,--I never heard of any extraordinary latitude was permitted in the development of extreme ideas.html">ideas, attacked and slavery was defended on the same platform, with almost equal general.html">general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and stigmatized as abolitionists. There was a general ferment of new ideas, fact that growth and movement are better than stagnation and decay. You rocks if it has not. With much foam and froth, sure to attend agitation, that carried civilization straight across the continent, that built up and energy performed miracles in the way of the subjugation of nature and literary product, great in quantity and to some degree distinguished in scientific writers. A conspicuous agency of the period was the lecture information, but much more in the stimulation of independent thought and and of the high and specialized education. More remarkable than the colleges, both in the departments of the humanities and of science. If I measurable disappointment of the results of the common schools as at .

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