Calendar: 1869-1870 Page 534

536 WARNEFORD SCHOLARSHIPS IV Translate into French believe it to be necessary and quite desirable that the popular power in State should in the perfection of things be paramount to any other but this supremacy need not and ought not think to be absolute and monarchy and an aristocracy of birth-as distinguished from one of wealth or of office-appear to me to be two precious elements which still exist in most parts of Europe and to lose which as has been done unavoidably in America would be rather our insanity than our misfortune There is nothing so revolutionary because there is nothing so unnatural and so convulsive to society as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress and the cause of all the evils of the world may be traced to that natural but most deadly error of human indolence and corruption that our business is to preserve and improve It is the ruin of us alike individuals schools and nations -Arnol VII -$cbtIUr -OTilijrlm Cell Translate into English rojj ifl in Unterroalben meine freunbfdjaft Unb eber irngt mit ftreuben Sei& unb 93Iut SBenn er am anbern einen SHittfen fycit Unb djirm Ο fronune 333ter bteft3 Sanbeg 3φ fielje nur ein 3ungting jrcifd eu eitcfy Den 93ielerfal rnen meine gtimme mu& S3efd eiCen fcfyroeigen in ber SanbSgemeinbe 91id rceil id jung Bin unb nid iel erlc&te 93erad tct meinen Hati unb meine SHebe ίΊίφί Iuflern jugenblid e8 tut mid tret&t £ e8 δφιίεη Sainmerg fdjmerjlidje erealt 2Ba aua ben Stein beg gfelfcn muf erbarmen SBir jliften feinen neuen 9911nb e8 ifl din unilt Sunbnif nur tion 33atcr 3eit