The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ; sisters evil huuk 364 THE PATHWAY OF •the old piano-forte of society is all out of tune, when hypocrisy, and lying,and subterfuge, and double-dealing, and sycophancy, and charlatanism andrevenge have for six thousand years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies. Nations in realizing it, so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbolschosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full o
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ; sisters evil huuk 364 THE PATHWAY OF •the old piano-forte of society is all out of tune, when hypocrisy, and lying,and subterfuge, and double-dealing, and sycophancy, and charlatanism andrevenge have for six thousand years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies. Nations in realizing it, so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbolschosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full ofrobins, and doves, and morning larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce andfilthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can be found in all the ornithological Great Britain, where they have lambs and fallow-deer, their symbol is themerciless lion. In Russia, where, from between her frozen north and bloomingsouth, all kindly beasts dwell, they choose the growling bear, and in the worldsheraldry a favorite figure is the dragon, which is a winged serpe
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