The army mule and other war sketches . , the best princi-ples, the best talent, that have illumined andvivified the human family through all its glo-rious past. Here, then, if we and our descendants aretrue, in this enlarged and beautified Eden, areto be evolved all the grand possibilities ofhumanity. Here increasing prosperity is tobring increased virtue; increasing intelli-gence, increased power; increasing culture,increased happiness; increasing freedom, in-creased nobility. Here the swarming mill-ions yet to be, molded by free institutions 2i6 DRESS PARADE and universal education into a re
The army mule and other war sketches . , the best princi-ples, the best talent, that have illumined andvivified the human family through all its glo-rious past. Here, then, if we and our descendants aretrue, in this enlarged and beautified Eden, areto be evolved all the grand possibilities ofhumanity. Here increasing prosperity is tobring increased virtue; increasing intelli-gence, increased power; increasing culture,increased happiness; increasing freedom, in-creased nobility. Here the swarming mill-ions yet to be, molded by free institutions 2i6 DRESS PARADE and universal education into a refined andhomogeneous race, multiplying their materialcomforts by now undreamed-of physical ap-pliances, adorning their homes until eachfamily shall dwell, self-centered, in a world ofbeauty as in a shining sphere of crystal, andwarming in the sunshine of Gods presenceas they grow in moral stature nearer to Histhrone,—here the coming millions will ad-vance to the millennial fruition promised asthe goal of earthly hope and effort. 217. THE BOYS IN BLUE GROWN GRAY V HERE were no giants inthose days that tried menssouls and stored their bod-ies with unpensionableailments. Giants, mostly-apocryphal, fought battlessingle-handed in periodsof antiquity now remote and last samples perished some centuriesago, painfully regretted. Their spears wererust, their clubs were dust, their souls werewith the saints (we trust) long prior to men who put down the slaveholdersrebellion were mostly boys. It is estimatedthat the soldiers of the Union averaged onlynineteen years old when the roar of that firstcannon broke on Sumters walls and echoed 218 THE BOYS IN BLUE GROWN GRAY down the aisles of time, besides shattering alarge invoice of miscellaneous crockery. Nosuch burden ever before fell on the youth ofany era; no such imperial manhood was everbefore developed in a single molded countless heroes of her own,and has thrust her hand into every mass ofmort
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