掉書包支持豹子：）The world makes history, and scholars write it

早晨讀閑書，看了一篇 Wendell Phillips 在1881年的演講詞，The Scholar in a Republic.
是在哈佛大學校友聯誼會成立100周年慶典上的講話。

"We all agree in the duty of scholars to help those less favored in
life, and that this duty of scholars to educate the mass is still more
imperative in a republic, since a republic trusts the state wholly to
the intelligence and moral sense of the people."
“... law has no atom of strengh, either in Boston or New Orleans, unless, and only so far as, public opinion indorses it, and that your life, goods, and good name rest on the moral sense, self-respect, and low-abiding mood of the men that walk the steets, and hardly a whit on the provisions of the statute book.”

"It would be no exaggeration to say that government itself began in
usurpation, in the feudalism of the soldier and the gigotry of the
priest; that liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights
wrung from strong hands of wealth and book learning (富有者和讀書人）. Almost
all the great truths relating to society were not the result of
scholarly meditation, "having up wisdom with each curious year," but
have been first heard in the solemn protests of martyred patriotism
and the loud cries of crushed and starving labor. When common sense
and the common people have stereotyped a principle into a statute,
then bookmen come to explain how it was discovered and on what ground
it rests. The world makes history, and scholars write it, --one half
truly and the other half as their prejudices blur and distort... " (我覺得他這一段特有革命精神，人民才是創造曆史的動力嘛！）

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