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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Virtues and Public Services of the Late Judge Jay: Delivered Before the American Peace Society
WE have reason to thank God for every good man, whose life and character death has sealed, secure from change, for posterity. We have reason to thank God for every measure of greatness, intellect ual, and of position and in?uence, circumstantial, which are as the propelling forces and machinery of a rocket that carry the light high into the heavens. The beneficent lustre of a good man's ex ample, placed so loftily by position and in?uence, does not fall when the scaffolding is taken away, but remains, and shines the brighter and more independent and permanent.
The true light, progress, civilization, well-being and prosperous history of the world, are the work of individuals, possessed of truth, and laboring for its diffusion. And as the heavens are mapped out by constellations and bright planets, named in the childhood of astronomical science, and still the old common names and yision of those steadfast lights are the practical guide of the multitude, who know nothing of co-sines and tangents, just so the eras of our world, the periods of light in it, are marked by characters and names in which, of men in whom, ideas burn and reign, truths, governing truths, are enshrined, and still radiant as revolving lights in great light-houses. A single great light marks a period, preserves the ih terest of a period, which sometimes, after being as effectually lost from sight and from regard as a blank, as completely buried from discovery as Herculaneum and Pompeii were for centuries, at length becomes again the subject of investigation, of wonder, and of praise.
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