Excerpt from The Claims of Our Country on Its Literary Men: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, July 19, 1849
Mr. President and Gentlemen of The Phi Beta Kappa Society:
The next difficulty, after gaining courage to address so distinguished an assembly, is the choice of a subject. The orator's habits may, through your characteristic courtesy, influence his decision; and, as you have laid the honorable appointment upon one who has been consecrated an advocate of Christian morals, you will not be displeased, if his theme should accord with his calling. His task will, then, be more proportionate to his powers; for the discovery of truth is seldom a privilege of man, and the illustration of well-known principles in a manner that gives them attractive - freshness is an art of rare genius; but to urge simply, yet earnestly, the motives of duty, is not above the pitch of an ordinary strength.
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