Moral courage, an address delivered at the opening of the fifteenth session of Queen's college, Canada.
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Abstract
lias had, at different epochs, warriors of insatiable ambition, who neither bad, nor required tbe stimulus of poetry and oratory.It. is, in fact, on the unsophisticated multitude, that martial poetry as well as martial music produce their true effect.The ambitious conqueror does not need to go to the harp for his inspiration.With high selfish aims and ample means, he will find that in the boundless pride of his own heart.I offer no apology for the poetry or oratory which has prostituted the sacred gifts of genius, to ceJebrate lawless ambition, or throw delusive charms around deeds of rapine and blood.Yet, why should it be forgotten that our great poets, Dramatic as well as Epic, if they have not always taught a sanctified courage, have, nevertheless, by senti- ments of justice, honour, and a generous forbearance, done much to refine and elevate the courage of the warrior.-We know something of .whatwar has been ; yet, possibly, we know but little what it might have been, but for the hu- manizing influences of those great and generous minds, who have celebrated martial exploits.It were well if certain persons who are carried away, not, as they fancy, by a seraphic benevolence, but by a spurious sentimental- ism, would bear in mind that some of the loftiest poetry in the Bible is employed in celebrating the deeds of bravemen on the field of battle.And who will say that the cour- age of the warrior, when employed as the instrument of heaven's justice, is not a very sacred thing.It is true, mere physical courage of itself, as it may be the attribute of very bad men, and is the attribute of many brute creatures, can- not be spoken of in unqualified admiration ; yet, in a world in which injustice and other forms of wickedness, can only be put down by opposing force to force-that physical cour- age which fits men for meeting bodily sufferings, and even death, in a conflict with the enemies of God and of order, is a very valuable quality.It were well, if this never were needed.But for all practical purposes, we must just take men as they are.Now, assuredly, he is a very childish person who needs to be told that there is much of the
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.246 | 0.035 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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