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Excerpt from A Decade of Oratory, at Northwestern University: Eleven Prize Orations Which Have Been Awarded the Annual Prize of One Hundred Dollars, Given by Mrs. James S. Kirk
He was the only support of his family, but the one word, ought, again and again carried up the weight of the mightiest contradictory syllables. If you please, sum up the globes as so much silver, and the suns as so much gold, and cast the hosts of heaven as diamonds on a necklace into one scale, and if there is not in it any part of the word ought, if ought is absent in the one scale, and present in the other, up will go your scale laden with the universe, as a crackling paper scroll is carried aloft in a con?a gration, ascending toward the stars.
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