which Conington translates:
Pale Death, impartial, walks his round; he knocks at cottage-gate And palace portal.
I have found both pleasure and profit in reviewing these associations, especially the memories of our wise and friendly teachers, and of fellow-students who were soon to be entrusted with the grave interests, the sacred issues of life, liberty and property. As experience and observation widen, one realizes how thin is the crust which separates civilized society from the elemental fires below, and comes more and more to value influences which preserve and institutions which stabilize. Such an influence, such an institution is the Harvard Law School. Such an influence, such an institution is the Brotherhood of the Bar, indissoluble save by death or dishonor.
[To be Continued]
OUR THIRD BIRTH OF FREEDOM. [1]
BY JUSTICE CHARLES W. PARKER.
[ [1] Fourth of July Address at the Church of Saint Marys-by-the-Sea, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Published herein by request of the Editor of the Law Journal. See Editorial Notes.
The exercises of to-day are a revival, temporary perhaps, but still a revival, of the good old custom of celebrating the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by public meetings, with prayer and song, the reading of the Declaration, and a patriotic address. It was a good custom, though it tended to foster some erroneous ideas, particularly that England as a nation was blameworthy in Revolutionary times, rather than the political machinations of George III, the politician king. But it was a good custom for all that, and it is regrettable that it gave place to noise and fireworks.