The newspaper, and the telegraph, and the telephone, and the constant dissemination of news, the public library and the common school and college mix up all together and tend to make us, with some rare and delightful exceptions, eminently commonplace.
Hoar discusses the impact of modern communication and education on American society, suggesting it leads to a lack of distinction among people.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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