"'Tis Sixty Years Since" - Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 37

it ever struck away to a duration determined by the brain and purpose of man." I do
you don't think him it was wrong;  although we, clearly understand that the
Federal constitution was a growth and in any degree an inspiration. That
Constitution has through one century and a quarter it sustained the test of time
and stress of war, during one period of the almost boundless growth of the
community for which was conceived. You/he/she has overcome in duration a lot of nationalities
and the most greater part of the dynasties in existence to the duration of his/her adoption;  and
also, that under conditions that they sufficiently try. Me, therefore I concern him/it
with deep respect;  and, concerning him/it so, I would treat him/it with a
cautious and tender hand. Slightly pronouncing him/it didn't grow old, that that
changes are able me I do in him if to-tomorrow me was given for prescribing
changes that suit him for the conditions altered that they compare us? ME
you don't hesitate to say, and I am happy to say, the changes that I am able
suggests it would be limited;  anchor, I imagine, of vast course.

And, in the first place, I/you/he/she allow us to have a clear conception of the end in
sight. That end is, I submit, precisely the same to-day that had Aristotle
in sight more than twenty centuries ago. It is, not to resolve everybody
political problems, but to put political problems as them they rise in the
hands of those that he called the "better,"--but as that we know more anymore the
intelligent, careful and to be, through their agency in the
way of last solution. If, adopting every sick-considered and
mean-fledged measure of so defined reform of which it would be the desire the
day, we incorporated them to us in our supreme law of the land, but a thing was able
resulted confusion therefrom,--last. The Constitution neither it is a
crazy-comforter legislative neither a receptacle of the whims. To do him/it such is in
every respect the reverse of scientific. The available job immediately,
therefore, it is to conceive such changes in the supreme law of the land as he/she will mind
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