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THE TRAIL
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In leading rather than driving men, women and children in the practice of reasoning, self-guidance and self-control rather than that of implicit obedience.
In the doctrine of each for all and all for each.
In a universal sense of obligation to the community and the country, an obligation to be discharged by service, gratitude and love.
In the dignity and strength of common human nature and therefore in democracy and its ultimate triumph.
THE TRAIL[1]
Uncouth, unconquered, unafraid
To serve without servility,
Under his roaring masquerade
Of pomp and squalor, this is he
Who leads us by his hardy trail
Home to ourselves, and there at last
Unbares the glorifying grail
That lights our morrow from the past—
- ↑ Part VII of MacKaye's longer poem "Ourselves."
