He explains to us that we are not separated from them; not only by reason of the future life and our sacred creeds, but because our life on earth must be purely and simply a continuation of theirs.

We must do as they did, and believe what they believed, else shall we fall into error and utopianism.

We are all linked to each other and with the past; we are bound together by an entirety of traditions and precepts.

Our normal destiny, so adequate to our nature, must be allowed to fulfill itself along the indicated path, without hearkening to the temptations of novelty, of hate, of envy--of envy above all, that social cancer, that enemy of the great civic virtue--Discipline.
He ceases.

The echo of the great magnificent words floats in the silence.