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E brick-mason builds, but staggers up the ladder with a heavier load
than bricks,--the soldier upon his back. The symbols of nations are
still the lion, the eagle and the wolf. Some political leaders even yet
talk about the necessity of an occasional war to put boys upon their
mettle, as if invention, the building of railways, the founding of
cities, the fighting of economic and social wrongs would not put a man
upon his mettle! To put a German on one side of a fence and a Frenchman
on the other, and have one peasant empty his shotgun into the bowels of
the other is about as noble as going out into a yard and shooting a
Jersey cow. The best way to protect a nation is to build boys into men,
through the processes of productive industry. Machine gun and
dreadnought will soon be as obsolete in the presence of arbitration and
the court at the Hague as an ox-cart is obsolete in the presence of a
Pullman palace car. Wendell Phillips once said that Lord Bacon had a
right to lay his hand on the steam engine and say to Watt: "This engine
is mine; I gave you the method." So Charles Sumner, after sixty-five
years, has a right to stand yonder at the entrance of the Parliament
House of Peace, now being completed in the capital of Holland, and say:
"I laid the foundation stones of this structure and started a war
against war." This oration of Sumner's on "The True Grandeur of Nations"
made him a most unpopular figure at home, but Europe soon called for his
speech. It was translated into many languages, two hundred and
fifty-thousand copies were published and sold, and for the time Sumner
was the most talked of man of the year. Now the one man who was not on
the defensive, who was not content to merely stay the forward progress
of slavery, but insisted on driving it back into the Gulf and ultimately
into the sea, to be drowned forever, was Charles Sumner, with 
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