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Our great danger lies in the radical tendency which has become so wide, deep, and active in the American people.
We have, to a great extent, ceased to regard any thing as sacredvenerable we spurn what is old war against what is fixed and

labor to set all religious, domestic, and social institutions afloaton the wild and tumultuous sea of speculation and experiment.
Nothing has hitherto gone right nothing has been achieved that is worth retaining and man and Providence have thus far done nothing but commit one continued series of blunders, All things are to be reconstructed the world is to be recast, and by our own wisdom and strength, We must borrow no light from the past, adopt none of its maxims, and take no data from its experience, Even language itself, which only embodies the thoughts, convictions, sentiments, hopes, affections, and aspirations of the race, cannot serve as a medium of inter course between man and man, I t is not safe to affirm that black is black, for the word black only names an idea which the past entertained, and most likely a false idea, With such a tendency, wide and deer strong and active, we canv A It A N I loyalty, Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual, preacher, labor organizer and writer, He was the father of sitelink Henry Francis Brownson, Orestes Augustus Brownson was an American intellectual, preacher, labor organizer and writer, He was the father of sitelink Henry Francis Brownson, sitelink.