Roosevelt the Moralist in Action
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Excerpt from Roosevelt the Moralist in Action: Memorial Address The end of all moral speculation is to teach us our duty; and by proper representation of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one and embrace the other. But is this ever to be expected from inferences and conclusions of the understanding which of themselves have no hold of the affections, nor set in motion the active powers of men? They discover truths, but where the truths which they discover are indifferent, and beget no desire or aversion, they can have no influence on conduct or behavior. What is honorable, what is fair, what is becoming, what is noble, what is generous, takes possession of the heart, and animates us to embrace and maintain it. What is intelligible, what is evident, what is probable, what is true, procures only the cool assent of the understanding; and gratifying speculative curiosity puts an end to our researches. Hume, "Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals." I have chosen to-day to speak of Theodore Roosevelt the moralist, and I have so chosen because all that I have seen of the man, as I understood him, was inseparable from the moralist. Even in the midst of a bitter campaign when the political furies seemed to be let loose, and when in his answer to attacks and in his own attacks, he was showing an energy and dialectic skill, a physical energy and courage that we do not associate with those interested humanly in the fundamental things of life; even then, to me the most absorbing side, the side I was not able to forget, was the moralist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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