World Federation Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered Before the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in Pacific Grove July 2, 1885, by Edward Berwick of Carmel Valley (As reported in the Pacific Rural Press, dated August 15, 1885) Ever since rebellious little Jonathan severed the apron strings that bound him to avaricious and domineering old Mother Britannia, this country has been, on the whole, happily free from foreign embroilment. We have regarded the tidings of wars and rumors of wars which have spread to us across the Atlantic with much equanimity, if not with satisfaction. Our markets have been made buoyant thereby, and coin has come to our coffers. Depression and coffins to them has not signified. The prevailing idea has been, "These things shall never happen unto us." Like Cain we have repudiated any notion of being our "brother's keeper." But the views of life some of us entertain are based on the standpoint that all sin, national or individual, is just some form of selfishness, and that unselfishness is the essence of Christianity. And we take from our political creed the sentiment of America's greatest living poet that "They are slaves most base Whose love of right is for themselves And not for all the race." So much by way of prologue. A dignitary of the English Episcopal Church was once asked by a lady to define orthodoxy and heterodoxy. "Orthodoxy, my dear madam," replied he, "is my cioxy and your doxy; heterodoxy is everybody else's doxy." I trust today so to set forth my doxy that it may be accepted as your doxy and thus be certified and endorsed as orthodoxy. And let not the apparent novelty of my subject affront you. Every accepted idea of today once had the merit, or demerit, of novelty. Every accepted idea of today once 1 , OCR Text: World Federation Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered Before the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in Pacific Grove July 2, 1885, by Edward Berwick of Carmel Valley (As reported in the Pacific Rural Press, dated August 15, 1885) Ever since rebellious little Jonathan severed the apron strings that bound him to avaricious and domineering old Mother Britannia, this country has been, on the whole, happily free from foreign embroilment. We have regarded the tidings of wars and rumors of wars which have spread to us across the Atlantic with much equanimity, if not with satisfaction. Our markets have been made buoyant thereby, and coin has come to our coffers. Depression and coffins to them has not signified. The prevailing idea has been, "These things shall never happen unto us." Like Cain we have repudiated any notion of being our "brother's keeper." But the views of life some of us entertain are based on the standpoint that all sin, national or individual, is just some form of selfishness, and that unselfishness is the essence of Christianity. And we take from our political creed the sentiment of America's greatest living poet that "They are slaves most base Whose love of right is for themselves And not for all the race." So much by way of prologue. A dignitary of the English Episcopal Church was once asked by a lady to define orthodoxy and heterodoxy. "Orthodoxy, my dear madam," replied he, "is my cioxy and your doxy; heterodoxy is everybody else's doxy." I trust today so to set forth my doxy that it may be accepted as your doxy and thus be certified and endorsed as orthodoxy. And let not the apparent novelty of my subject affront you. Every accepted idea of today once had the merit, or demerit, of novelty. Every accepted idea of today once 1 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,A through B Name file,Berwick,BERWICK_006.pdf,BERWICK_006.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: BERWICK_006.PDF, BERWICK_006.pdf 1 Page 1