much affected by learned men, 275, 9 refused to execute, 275, 15 owed him a grudge, 276, 1 such-like vexatious tricks, 276, 17 worldly ends, 277, 17 dedicate my whole time, 277, 17 holding converse, 278, 14 lamenting the loss, 278, 23 altered by grief, 280, 10 advocate for an impostor, 281, 2 power of resistance, 281, 11 set him a severe task, 281, 19 became a hindrance, 281, 32 had enjoined, 281, 35 father’s precepts, 282, 16 penitence was sincere, 283, 19 have compassion, 283, 23 stupefied their senses, 283, 31 engaging to restore, 284, 1 uncouth form, 285, 8 prosperous gales, 285, 19 happy nuptials, 285, 35 PART III IDEALS AND HEROES OF FREEDOM _“When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast_ _Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west.”_ —James Russell Lowell. [Illustration: Copyright by M. G. Abbey (from a Copley Print, copyright by Curtis & Cameron, Boston) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE] IDEALS AND HEROES OF FREEDOM INTRODUCTION We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung Of Earth’s first blood, have titles manifold. —Wordsworth. These lines remind us of the great inheritance, not alone of Englishmen but of all who speak the English tongue, whether they live in the United States or England, in Canada or in Australia. This inheritance is due to the fact that English-speaking peoples govern themselves, that they were the first to invent the means by which free government became possible. It sometimes seems a simple thing, very much a matter of course, that in America the rulers are all the people, who adopt the laws they desire; who submit to rules of life because they themselves think these rules to be wise, not because they are compelled to submit through the will of an emperor. But in reality this free government, this democracy, has grown very slowly, through centuries. It is an inheritance of freedom.