Surely they were all opposed to a Union which for a variety of reasons had grown odious in their sight; but, did they, could they, approve of the acts of their Legislature prior to the Union with England?
Could these children whom I unman, could these men whom I kill because they hinder my progress--could they or any of them as much as conceive my gigantic designs?
The absurdity of her curiosity and her fears--could they ever be forgotten?
Seeing this so plainly, could they fail to compare the scientific manner in which the nation went to war with the unscientific manner in which it went to work?
Could they fail to see that it was their perfect concert of action, their organization under one control, which made these men the tremendous engine they were, able to vanquish a mob ten times as numerous?
Could they be reasoning beings, who did not see the folly which, when the product is made and ready for use, wastes so much of it in getting it to the user?
Could they be retained according to the common usage with regard to prisoners?
In no other practical forms of folly to which they might betake themselves, could they operate so vigorously and be so invigorated by their operation.
Could they ravish a nation from its accustomed home, transplant it bodily, force new conditions on it, train, teach, civilize it?
Could they be destined, he and she, to witness the closing chapter in the long, painful, glorious Book of Evolution?
Could they, in spite of their gross ignorance, have so interwoven the fictitious and the historical as to make the fiction let into the history seem a natural part of it?
Could they, above all, have conceived the daring, but glorious, project of embodying and dramatizing the ideal of the system they inculcated in the person of Christ?
Could they impart to us one moment's pure, spiritual enjoyment?
If they were apprised of this commission of his, could they, whether with his consent or even without his consent, avoid repairing to the constituted authorities to tell them what had happened?
Ah, could they see in the Valley of Gloom That clove the cliffs behind the City; Ah, could they hear in the forest of Doom The peril that neared without pause or pity?
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