necessary in order to build up that wonderful structure, man, whose prerogative it is to be, in a great degree, a creature of his own making, and who, when made as he ought to be made, is destined to hold no trivial place in the creation. But whenever man is put over men, as the better nature ought ever to preside, in that case more particularly he should, as nearly as possible, be approximated to his perfection."[1]
The proposal for such a consecration of the national work cannot be strange in the ears of the people, for it is in accordance with the spirit of their common prayer for the High Court of which the representatives are a part,—that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
- ↑ Reflections, &c., p. 137
