New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of Truth: Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea.
Sumner calls for continuous progress and adaptation in the pursuit of truth, likening it to a pilgrimage.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Other voices in this conversation
