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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.

LOYALTY and liberality are habits of thought transmuted into modes of action. In the modern desire to be free from prejudice we are losing loyalty; because truth is so multiform, we forget that its purpose is single; we wish to be broad, and we become vague; we dislike partisanship, and we grow indifferent. We think of loyalty as a patriotic virtue, and forget that it is the outcome of all intense conviction; we even feel it to be a mark of illiberality, while yet the want of it is impoverishing our natures, and is pauperizing society. We are so afraid lest we be called sectarian that, in our insistence upon all possible good in

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