Prophetic as was his vision, he could never have anticipated the reality of to-day, for this nation, thus deliberately formed in the light of reason and without blood or passion, is to-day, by common consent, one of the greatest and, I trust I may add, one of the noblest republics of all time.
Beck praises the nation as one of the greatest republics, formed through reason rather than conflict.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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