The Drums of War / The Thrust of Empire
The Drums of War / The Thrust of Empire
This chapter describes Reverend Timothy Dwight's valedictory address to the Yale graduating class of 1776. Dwight espoused his vision of revolution, the future of the newly born nation, and the perfectibility all mankind. Refuting the hard realities weighing so heavily upon the new nation, he urged Yale's graduates to soar with him on the wings of patriotic rhetoric, to willingly suspend their disbelief, and imagine their politically divided and war-torn composite of states as “the greatest empire the hand of time ever raised up to view.”
Keywords: Timothy Dwight, Yale, valedictory address, speech, revolution
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