It is not strange that the discerning leader of a modern mighty republic. on the occasion of his inductance into office. should invoke the image of 1014 B.C. Time is condensed in these centuries. Only 300 years ago our forebears were scattered in little settlements along the Atlantic coast. Many of them were refugees from oppression in the Old World. oppression of body or mind or spirit. Trying to establish a foothold in a new world. they were subject to death by starvation. by disease and loneliness. by the tomahawks of the natives. But they persisted. and in a few short centuries they set up an empire beside which the kingdom of Solomon was a puny affair.
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