“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.