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Show 206 TilE BASlS OF 1'1IE Ifumnnity, then ''"c should not h:wc :::.ccn ll1is ti(1c of ctui~.rration from in:-u1ar nn(l continental Euro1K' flowill? into our country through the clw.nnpl~ of 1hc SL Lawl't'IlCC, the IIu<bon, and the :J[is;-:is~ippi,-cbl)iug, howcn~r, alWfl)'S with the OCCU~ionnJ rise Of the hnpc.:> ol' f:'d.>dom ahroncl, and nlways fi\YC1ling !"!gain intn grcat.•r volume when those premature lwpcs snb:.illc. IC there were no such common IIunumil,\'1 then the poor of Grc~t Drit~in woul<l not be pcrl'Ctually appealing to us :1.gainsL the opprc~:-;ion of lamllonb on their f~trms and work-mn:4crs in their mnnu[tctorics antl mines; and so, on the other llrtntl, we Rlwuld not be, ns we arc n0\\"1 perpetually franting apologies to Jnnnkind for the continuance of J\Jrican sbYcry among om·::;clves. If there were 110 sueh common lfum~J>ity, then the fame of 1\'allnco \\"Otdtl h:tve long n,su (lictl away in his native mountain~, nnd the name even of W asl1ington would at most have been only" household word in Virginia, and not as it is ll0\\"1 :1. watchword of llopc and Progress throughout the world. rr there had been no such common llumanity, then whcu tl>c civilization of Greece nml Home l1ad been consume(] by the fu·cs of human pa~sion, the A.MBlUCAN COKS'l'ITUTION. 207 nations of modern Europe could never have gathered from among its ashes the philosophy, the arts, and the religion, wl1idl were imperishable, and bave reconstructed with those materials tl1at better civilization, whicl1, amid the conOicts and fall of political and ecclesiastical systems, l1as been constantly advancing towards perfection in cvny succeeding age. I f there had been no such common IIumanity, then the dark nncl mn~si\·c Egyptian obelisk would not bave every~ where reappeare<l in tlH· sepulchml architecture of our own times, an<~ the liJt and graceful orders of Greece and Italy would not as now have been the models of our villas and OUl' dwellings, nor would. the simple and lofiy arch and the delic~tc tracery of Gothic design have been as it now is, everywhere consecrated to the service of religion. Tf there hatl been no such common humanity, then would tltc sense of tltc oblig~tion of the Decalogue have been confined to the despised nation wLo received it from :J[ouut Sinai, and the prophecies of Jcwi~1~ seers anU. t1JC songs of Jewish bards would ha,-c perished forever with their temple, ancl never afterwards could they have become as tl1cy now arc, the universal utterance of the spiritual emotions and |