Give civil and religious liberty, you give every thing; knowledge and science, heroism and honor, virtue and power; deny them, and you deny every thing in vain are the gifts of nature there is no harvest in the fertility of the soil; there is no cheerfulness in the radiance of the sky; there is no thought in the understanding of man; and there is in his heart no hope : the human animal sinks and withers; abused, disinherited, stripped of the attributes of his kind, and no longer formed after the image of his God. 1811. |