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<br />. <br /> <br />sweet again and the world is filled with peace.., "Ah, they were great men in those days.... <br />men w~o were gallant and brave and examples for our children to emulate". And they will <br />be spea~ing about our time in history. <br /> <br />The Holy Grail of high enterprise illuminates our century and this truly is a time. <br />demanding greatness from people. <br /> <br />. D~manding that we re-emphasize the fact that an eternal chain of duty links the <br />generations that are dead, and the generation that is living now, and the generations yet <br />to be bor n. <br /> <br />We have no right in this brief existence of ours, to alter irrevocably the shape of <br />things, . in contempt of our ancestors and the rights of posterity. <br /> <br />Think of the woman in I ndia who stood by a temple in the process of construction. <br />A visitor asked the cost of the building. She looked at her questioner in surprise, and <br />answered.., "Why, we do not know. It is for God. And we do not count the cost!" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />R~member.., what we do today and tomorrow and every day is for our nation and for <br />our God, and... yes... for our common destiny. <br /> <br />Iri the light of these indisputable facts, who can stop to count the cost. <br /> <br />This is not an accident. The men who gave us our Declaration of I ndependence, our <br />Constitution, and our Bill of Rights had a tradition and a way of thinking to build upon. <br />But they had never before established a form of government nor a system of organized <br />society, They carried in their very lives and minds the heritage and vision of their fore- <br />fathers,: who by courage and ingenuity, forced their way across an unknown sea and into <br />an u nkriown land determined to bu ild and maintain for themselves and for their posterity <br />a way of. life embracing religious freedom, a maximum of individual liberty, and economic <br />opportu n ity for every citizen, <br /> <br />For those forefathers of ours, the design and construction of a form of government <br />and a social order to embody their ideal was not an easy task. They had no model to copy -- <br />no standard to follow. They knew their own history; they knew the stories of those forms <br />of government and social order from which their forefathers had fled; they knew the ways <br />of the fe!1dallord, the emperor, and the kind. They wanted no more of these. They had <br />the picture of the utopian commune; they knew that their fathers had tried it and found <br />it wanting. I ndeed, they knew that an early governor had found it necessary to declare <br />that "hewho.does not work shall not eat". Thus they knew some forms of government <br />and soci~1 order wh ich they did not want! <br /> <br />Th9se hardy and austere men, offspring of the Dissenter, the Puritan, and the <br />Huguen<!t -- witnesses of the searching struggle for individual freedom in many other <br /> <br />- 29 - <br /> <br />