Nothing is done, or worse than nothing, unless something higher be taught, _as_ higher, something more fundamental, _as_ more fundamental.

In the moral virtues and qualities of passion which belong to a people, must the ultimate salvation of a people be sought for.

Moral qualities of a high order, and vehement passions, and virtuous as vehement, the Spaniards have already displayed; nor is it to be anticipated, that the conduct of their enemies will suffer the heat and glow to remit and languish.

These may be trusted to themselves, and to the provocations of the merciless Invader.

They must now be taught, that their strength _chiefly_ lies in moral qualities, more silent in their operation, more permanent in their nature; in the virtues of perseverance, constancy, fortitude, and watchfulness, in a long memory and a quick feeling, to rise upon a favourable summons, a texture of life which, though cut through (as hath been feigned of the bodies of the Angels) unites again--these are the virtues and qualities on which the Spanish People must be taught _mainly_ to depend.