"When each of you," said Lamennais, "loving all men as brothers, shall reciprocally act like brothers; when each of you, seeking his own well-being in the well-being of all, shall identify his own life with the life of all, and his own interest with the interest of all; when each shall be ever ready to sacrifice himself for all the members of the Common Family, equally ready to sacrifice themselves for him, most of the evils which now weigh upon the human race will disappear, as the gathering vapours of the horizon on the rising of the sun."
Dimly by the light of past ages, men think they can discern a nation
"Made free by love, a mighty brotherhood
Linked by a jealous interchange of Good."
Much has already been accomplished, but much remains, "There is no such thing as finality." Nerved, strengthened, encouraged by those who have created the present from the past, in the spirit of those fearless, ever-hopeful ancestors who braved the unknown seas and greeted England with a cheer, let their descendants face the future—
"Push off and, sitting well in order, smite
The sounding furrows."
