6, among them; and
others, not a few representing the leading families of the colonies, who
going over with their breasts full of New England milk, nourished the
heart of the great enterprise; "performed," so Palfrey tells us, "parts
of consequence in the Parliamentary service, and afterward in the
service of the Protectorate." It is not too much to say that on the
fields of Marston Moor and Naseby New England appeared; and that those
names may fairly be written on her banners. [Applause.]

That, I would observe--and Mr. Grady would freely concede it--was before
there was much mingling anywhere of the Puritan and the Cavalier blood,
save as it ran together between Cromwell's Ironsides and Rupert's
troopers. I would observe also that the propagation eastward inaugurated
in that early day has never ceased. The immigration of populations
hither from Europe, great a factor as it has been in shaping the history
of this continent, has not been so great a factor as the emigration of
ideas the other way has been, and continues to be, in shaping the
history of Europe, and of the mother country most of all. But that
carries me where I did not intend to go.

An inebriated man who had set out to row a boat across a pond was
observed to pursue a very devious course. On being hailed and asked what
the matter was, he replied that it was the rotundity of the earth that
bothered him; he kept sliding off. So it is the rotundity of my subject
that bothers me. But I do mean to stay on one hemisphere of it if
possible. [Laughter.]

The Forefathers were a power on earth from the start--and that by the
masterful quality of their mind and spirit. They had endless pluck,
intellectual and moral. They believed that the kingdom in this world was
with ideas. It was, you might say, one of their original Yankee notions
that it was the property of a man to have opinions and to stand by them
to the death. Judged from the standpoint of their times, as any one who
will take the pains to look will discover, they were tolerant men; but
they were fell debaters, and they were no compromisers. They split
hairs, if you will, but they wouldn't split the difference. [Laughter.]

A German professor of theology is reported to have said in lecturing to
his students on the Existence of God, that while the doctrine, no doubt,
was an important one, it was so difficult and perplexed that it was not
advisable to take too certain a position upon it, as many were dispo