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WT Sharpe · 10-11-2010, 11:07 AM

.....New times demand new measures and new men;
.....The world advances, and in time outgrows
.....The laws that in our fathers' day were best;
.....And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme
.....Will be shaped out by wiser men than we,
.....Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
..........— James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), American poet, critic, diplomat. From his poem, "A Glance Behind the Curtain" (1843), Complete Writings (Boston and New York, 1904), IX, 144. Quoted in Arthur Alphonse Ekirch, The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with the Barbary Powers, 1776-1816 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1931) 164, Questia, Web, 3 Oct. 2010.

10-11-2010, 11:07 AM	#747
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....New times demand new measures and new men; .....The world advances, and in time outgrows .....The laws that in our fathers' day were best; .....And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme .....Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, .....Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. ..........— James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), American poet, critic, diplomat. From his poem, "A Glance Behind the Curtain" (1843), *Complete Writings* (Boston and New York, 1904), IX, 144. Quoted in Arthur Alphonse Ekirch, *The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with the Barbary Powers, 1776-1816* (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1931) 164, Questia, Web, 3 Oct. 2010.