Addresses and Proceedings, 1910-1911 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Addresses and Proceedings, 1910-1911 (Classic Reprint) written by Canadian Club of Vancouver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses and Proceedings, 1910-1911 May I say how I appreciate the fine history of Canadian Clubs all over Canada. We have plenty of so-called patriotism in Canada - plenty of it. We are a rather noisy people. Youth is always demonstrative. It ought to be. It has learned the inhibitions of middle age and later life. We have instinctive patriotism, and that is a good thing to cherish. A man shall know that in his blood, untaught, untrained, there runs the love of his land. That is worth conserving. (applause). Then there is instinctive pride in our land. We are proud to be part of the empire that dominates the earth. (applause). It does that, without question. It does not suppress merit. Take the weakest, lowest colored race and the hand of Britain never kept it down, but sought to lift it up. So it dominates by the love of liberty and respect for law and consideration for the weak and children. And British ideals are governing the earth. So we dominate, not by suppression, but by pulling folk up our way. That is enlightened pride, 3. Bit of intelligent appreciation of who we are. When I hear certain laudations of what other folk have done and how they are hurrying to do things sometimes in the name of individual liberty at the risk of the fundamental concepts of duty and responsibility to society, I am glad to think that our folk do not do things that way. (applause). 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.