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Excerpt from The Rising Faith
Nor is there any fit literary expression. We have a brood of newspapers and magazines, without an organ like a judge to pronounce the sentence that wins respect. All are committed to some party-interest, rest on a money-basis, and watch a subscription-list. Every sheet might be called the Times; none Of the eterni ties. In our newspapers we find ourselves. They are the diaries we keep. It is not the fault, but merit, of journalism to be the public mirror. As such, it is an immense benefit and power superior to all other agen cies combined. Yet, as the press can be criticised only in its own columns, and is itself the instrument of a constituency unseen, it can be both insolent and sub sidized, a despot and a slave at once. We have the noble prints and the base; but if there be no such truth-tellers and saints, there are no such liars and criminals with impunity 'as types; nor could any phil anthropy meet a so signal, humane, and patriotic want as the establishment of an organ, independent of stock holders and subscribers, to stand for the moral senti ment like a Hebrew seer. In Our colleges and schools, the observing and intuitive faculties for what is real within us and actual without suffer neglect. With the noble scholars and good lawyers in our offices and courts, we have generated a set of able and adroit monsters who too often win the palm by their forward pushing, while unpretending worth is put aside. In Congress or legislature, questions are determined by personal motives, aside from the merits Of the case. Purchase of votes is too common to be a ?agrant crime.
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