instincts, tendencies, and destiny. A nation.html">nation.html">nation has a spiritual as
is subjected to internal as well as external conditions of health
understand and observe, or become weak and infirm, stunted in its
than the United States, and no one has hitherto had less. It has
and has lived the irreflective life of the child, with no severe
compel it to reflect on its own constitution.html">constitution, its own separate
the slaveholding States, and the fearful struggle that has
once to a distinct recognition of itself, and forced it to pass
grave and reflecting manhood. The nation has been suddenly
reflection, understanding, science.html">science, statesmanship, not from
and wherefore it does it. The change which four years of civil
the seriousness, the gravity, the dignity, the manliness it has
existence, it has not, even yet, attained to a full and clear
still obscured by the floating mists of its earlier morning, and
theories and fancies of its childhood. The national mind has
disposition prepared, but there remains the important work of
wild theories and fancies, and of enabling it to form a clear
appreciation of its own constitution tendencies,--and destiny;
idea.html">idea, and the means of its actualization in space and time.
Every living nation has an idea given it by Providence to
destiny. Every nation is, in some sense, a chosen people.html">people of God.
primitive traditions were to be preserved in their purity and
chosen people of God, for the development.html">development and realization of the
science and philosophy; and the Romans, for the development of
Asia were never properly nations; or if they were nations with a
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