英语经典美文诵读100篇：098.liberty is order

[00:05.14]098.Liberty Is Order [00:10.68]Liberty is order.Liberty is strength. Look round the world, and admire, as you must, the instructive spectacle. [00:21.35]You will see that liberty not only is power and order, [00:25.80]but that it is power and order predominant and invincible - that it derides all other sources of strength. [00:35.95]And shall the preposterous imagination be fostered, [00:40.04]that men bred in liberty - the first of humankind who asserted the glorious distinction of forming for themselves [00:48.05]their social compact - can be condemned to silence upon their rights? Is it to be conceived that men who have enjoyed, [01:00.21]for such a length of days, the light and happiness of freedom, [01:06.02]can be restrained, and shut up again in the gloom of ignorance and degradation? [01:14.59]As well, sir, might you try, by a miserable dam, to shut up the flowing of a rapid river! [01:23.15]The rolling and impetuous tide would burst through every impediment that man might throw in its way; [01:31.11]and the only consequence of the impotent attempt would be, that, [01:36.95]having collected new force by its temporary suspension, enforcing itself through new channels, [01:44.68]it would spread devastation and ruin on every side. [01:50.02]The progress of liberty is like the progress of the stream. [01:55.51]Kept within its bounds, it is sure to fertilize the country through which it runs; [02:01.06]but no power can arrest it in its passage; and short sighted, as well as wicked, [02:08.47]must be the heart of the projector that would strive to divert its course.

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