 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1926 - 592 pages
...second, and ensures its cooperation, it remains a sacred duty, imposed on them by the God of reason to wield with dexterity this mild and beneficent weapon, before recurring to the use of the other; which, though legitimate, may be less harmless; though infallible in operation, may'... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...second, and ensures its co-operation, it remains a sacred duty, imposed on them by the God of reason, to wield with dexterity this mild and beneficent weapon, before recurring to the use of the other; which, though legitimate, may be less harmless; though infallible in operation, may... | |
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... have not exhausted the subject. Two very powerful weapons, the" force of reason and the force of numbers, are in the hands of the political reformers. While the use of the first brings into action the second, and ensures its cooperation, it remains... 