Excerpt from Politics as a Duty and as a Career

The duty of educated men to take part in politics has been the subject of many a college oration. Many a generous young man has dreams of an honorable public career, and sees himself in imagination filling the highest offices in the nation, commanding "the applause of listening senates," or holding the helm of state in some great crisis of his country's fate. It is easy to be eloquent about duty in the abstract. It is fatally easy to dream; but it is better worth while to consider the practical questions, how can this duty be performed, - how can these dreams be realized?

The duty of an educated man was never clearer than now. Government by the people cannot succeed unless all the people take part in it. In the material world, a body pushed by different forces yields something to each and moves on a line which is the resultant of them all. The law of progress is the same in morals as in physics.

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