You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.īy the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man supple in combat: stonehorned, stonebearded, heart of stone. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. Why will you jews not accept our language, our religion and our culture? You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen we are a mighty people. It was revealed to me that those things are good which yet are corrupted which neither if they were supremely good nor unless they were good could be corrupted. I heard his words and their meaning was revealed to me. And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride. His listeners held their cigarettes poised to hear, their smoke ascending in frail stalks that flowered with his speech.Noble words coming. It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of a highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses. Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since by my learned friend.
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