the executive through the Secretary of State, in practice, gives the lead in all international questions.  In this way the Monroe doctrine appeared; in this way most other positions have been advanced; and perhaps this could not be otherwise.  But we ought to remember that the supreme executives in Europe have amassed power by having diplomatic relations in their hands, that thus the nation may become involved in war against its will, and that the prevention of evils must lie, if there be any, with the men who have been educated in the principles of international justice.

I close this treatise here, hoping that it may be of some use to my native land, and to young men who may need a guide in the science of which it treats.

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=_Taylor Lewis, 1802-.[48]_=

From “The Six Days of Creation.”

=_162._= UNITY OF THE MOSAIC ACCOUNT.

Another striking trait of the Mosaic cosmogony is its unbroken wholeness or unity....  Be it invention or inspiration, it is the invention or the inspiration of one mind.  Other cosmogonies, though bearing unmistakable evidence of their descent from the Mosaic, have had successive deposits, in successive series, of mythological strata.  This stands towering out in lonely sublimity, like the everlasting granite of the Alps or the Himalaya, as compared with the changing alluvium of the Nile or the Ganges.  As the serene air that ever surrounds the head of Mont Blanc excels in purity the mists of the fen, so does the lofty theism of the Mosaic account rise high above the nature-worship of the Egyptian and Hesiodean theogonies.  “In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was waste and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God brooded over the waters.  And God said, Let there be light, and it was light.  And God saw the light that it was fair, and God divided the light from the darkness.  And thus there was an evening and a morning—­one day!” What is there like it, or to be at all compared with it, in any mythology on earth?  There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production.

[Footnote 48:  Born In New York; a prolific writer, eminent for his profound scholarship, his wide acquaintance with Oriental and Biblical literature, and his originality and freedom of mind:  long Professor of Greek in Union College.]

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From “State Rights.”

=_163._= CRUEL INTESTINE WARS CAUSED BY NATIONAL DIVISION.