Has upon intellect, and its worth is derived not from what it teaches, but from what it forms. The training of life has upon character the same influence which the training of mathematics But there is a value in such a conflict beside if not beyond the value of the principles at stake. We are always working either better or worse than we can know and whether by victory or defeat, we are always achieving or sacrificing ends that we never purposed. “Those slow, sad hours which bring us all things ill,And all good things from evil,”Ĭan explain not only men to each other, but men and their actions to themselves. Time alone-time made up oftenest, both for nations and for men, of Its causes and its consequences stand for judgment before impartial history and it is not in this generation of victors and vanquished that we can reasonably expect to find an unexaggerated statement of its fortunes-a temperate appreciation of the influences which produced it-or a dispassionate estimate of the results it has accomplished. The great civil war in this country has ended by the total defeat of one of the parties to the issue.
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