If, however, there should be men who still fear (as I have been speaking of things under combinations which are transitory) that the action of these powers cannot be sustained; to such I answer that,--if there be a necessity that it should be sustained at the point to which it first ascended, or should recover that height if there have been a fall,--Nature will provide for that necessity.

The cause is in Tyranny: and that will again call forth the effect out of its holy retirements.
Oppression, its own blind and predestined enemy, has poured this of blessedness upon Spain,--that the enormity of the outrages, of which she has been the victim, has created an object of love and of hatred--of apprehensions and of wishes--adequate (if that be possible) to the utmost demands of the human spirit.

The heart that serves in this cause, if it languish, must languish from its own constitutional weakness; and not through want of nourishment from without.

But it is a belief propagated in books, and which passes currently among talking men as part of their familiar wisdom, that the hearts of the many _are_ constitutionally weak; that they _do_ languish; and are slow to answer to the requisitions of things.

I entreat those, who are in this delusion, to look behind them and about them for the evidence of experience.