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51 - Worlds Famous Orations - Continental Europe by William Jennings Bryan · Worlds Famous Orations - Continental Europe

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  Speaker 1: Section number fifty one of the World's Famous Orations, Volume seven,
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  Speaker 1: Continental Europe. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: World's Famous Orations, Volume seven, Continental Europe by William Jennings Bryan,
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  Speaker 1: Section number fifty one. Apunyee on the death of Louis
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  Speaker 1: Kosuth eighteen ninety four, born in eighteen forty six, of
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  Speaker 1: a family long distinguished in public affairs in Hungary for
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  Speaker 1: many years, Leader of the National Party in Hungary, President
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  Speaker 1: of the Hungarian House of Representatives in nineteen o three,
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  Speaker 1: Delegate to the Inter Parliamentary Conference in London in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: o six. We have to speak in the name of
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  Speaker 1: a morning nation, before a world filled with emotional sympathy.
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  Speaker 1: Who is the man who, after half a century's absence,
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  Speaker 1: holds just the same place in the heart of his
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  Speaker 1: people as when he was its ruler. Who is the
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  Speaker 1: man to whom all nations pay a tribute of respect
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  Speaker 1: such as no material power can command poor outcast though
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  Speaker 1: he was, who was Leuis Koseth? This question is being
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  Speaker 1: answered Now the features of the living are obscured by
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  Speaker 1: the mist of controversy. In its shadows we perceive but
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  Speaker 1: the flickering lamplight of transient opinion. But there comes the
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  Speaker 1: sharp wind of death. It dispels the mist, It blows
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  Speaker 1: out the lamps. The sun of history is rising. In
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  Speaker 1: the clearness of that night born day. We begin to
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  Speaker 1: see who Koseth was. Behold this nation before his hand
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  Speaker 1: was put to the wheel of her destinies? Was she
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  Speaker 1: a nation at all? Was she independent? Was she free?
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  Speaker 1: Was she a member of the great European family? In
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  Speaker 1: legal fiction? Yes? But how in fact? In fact we
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  Speaker 1: see before us a shapeless multitude, torn by the conflicts
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  Speaker 1: of privilege and oppression, almost secluded from the great currents
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  Speaker 1: and the noble competition of the civilized world, having no
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  Speaker 1: independent government of its own, made subservient to a foreign power,
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  Speaker 1: uncertain even in its national self consciousness, which now and
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  Speaker 1: then flashes up lightning like in the patriotic outbursts of individuals,
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  Speaker 1: but has no firm hold on the masses. And though
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  Speaker 1: this people has a parliament, the power of that parliament
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  Speaker 1: hardly goes beyond the privilege of issuing impotent complaints, a
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  Speaker 1: picture indeed of decay and dissolution. And now behold the
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  Speaker 1: present state of the country. God be praised for what
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  Speaker 1: we became. Since, though very far still from the fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of our destiny, we are a free nation, strong in
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  Speaker 1: her unity, in the equality of her citizens, in the
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  Speaker 1: recognized power of her representation, a not unworthy sister of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest among civilized nations. Conscious of our independence, we
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  Speaker 1: are governing ourselves in the spirit of liberty and progress.
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  Speaker 1: No aim appears too high for our legitimate ambition and
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  Speaker 1: undoubted possibilities. A picture indeed of hope and self confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Between these two states of a nation stands a man
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  Speaker 1: whose name was Louis Kosuth. Behold and compare the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Says who he was? He found the former, he created
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  Speaker 1: the latter. Not he alone, certainly not. It would be
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  Speaker 1: sinned to be wanting in peety on that day devoted
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  Speaker 1: to hiety to express gratitude toward one great man by
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  Speaker 1: discarding gratitude due to other great men. There have been
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  Speaker 1: many of them as co workers in the great work
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  Speaker 1: of regeneration, some with Koseth, some against him, but animated
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  Speaker 1: all of them by the same Holy Spirit. Of patriotism.
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  Speaker 1: Koseoth is one of the founders of our nation. He
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  Speaker 1: has made her secure of her independence and of her
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  Speaker 1: moral connection with the sister nations. He has made her
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  Speaker 1: an active agent in the great work of human progress,
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  Speaker 1: and by linking her destinies to the highest aspirations of
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  Speaker 1: our kind, has laid her future on a foundation of
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  Speaker 1: indestructible strength. His name is a symbol of our nation's
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  Speaker 1: worth to the world, of her racial individuality and her
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  Speaker 1: task in universal history. There lies the secret of the
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  Speaker 1: veneration this name encounters throughout the world, and of the
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  Speaker 1: gratitude and enthusiastic love it will never cease to pour
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  Speaker 1: forth from the hearts of our people. End of section
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  Speaker 1: number fifty one read by Bill Jones, dearborn Michigan, three
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  Speaker 1: October twenty twenty two. End of the World's Famous Orations,
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  Speaker 1: Volume seven, Continental Europe by William Jennings Bryan