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Page of writing [by Denny Lane]. ‘L. I know will do all he can to show me whats to be seen…He is a fine fellow, but hardly selfish enough for great success except as an apostle…Agitation may have its evils which make some men prefer open force…Agitation does not break heads but it breaks hearts…hypocrisy…meanness and all uncharitableness are the habitual courtiers of moral agitation’. [Words by Thomas Davis]. 1p 68 n.d. Notes by Lane entitled ‘Louis XIV’. ‘A reign which has been so often celebrated as the zenith of warlike and literary splendour but which has always appeared to me to be the consummation of whatever is afflicting and degrading in the history of the human race…’ 2pp 69 n.d. Writings by Lane in draft form, mainly concerning the Irish political situation. ‘Sometimes I turn away from the present and gazing forward thro’ the long alley of the future my fancy strives to form some image of the texture into which the destinies of my country will be woven in the web of time…’ 5pp 70 n.d. Writings by Denny Lane in draft form. Appears to concern the future political situation in Ireland. ‘When the destiny of my country comes to be woven in the loom of time, I pray that the national fibre though lustrous and pure may be knit into a texture tough as manhood yet flexible as womanhood, reflecting from its surface the sheen of the heaven above it and woven into no unvarying pattern…If I and my forebears have inherited the evil effects of Tyranny, we have also…inherited…the privilege to forgive…The nation that Grattan half created and that Davis strove to create again…unite into raising itself far above the accidents of time…’. 4pp
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