[E] In the _Areopagitica_: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered
virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her
adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to
be run for, not without dust and heat."
[F] Sir George Williams, 1821-1905, an English philanthropist, founder
of the Young Men's Christian Association.
ANNUAL ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
[Delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, December 8,
1914.]
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS:
The session upon which you are now entering will be the closing session
of the Sixty-third Congress, a Congress, I venture to say, which will
long be remembered for the great body of thoughtful and constructive
work which it has done, in loyal response to the thought and needs of
the country. I should like in this address to review the notable record
and try to make adequate assessment of it; but no doubt we stand too
near the work that has been done and are ourselves too much part of it
to play the part of historians toward it.
Our program of legislation with regard to the regulation of business is
now virtually complete.
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