Maid-servants, I hear people complaining, are getting
instructed in the "ologies," and so on, and are apparently totally
ignorant of brewing, boiling, and baking (laughter); above all things,
not taught what is necessary to be known, from the highest to the
lowest--strict obedience, humility, and correct moral conduct. Oh, it
is a dismal chapter, all that, if one went into it!
What has been done by rushing after fine speech? I have written down
some very fierce things about that, perhaps considerably more emphatic
than I would wish them to be now; but they are deeply my conviction.
(Hear, hear.) There is very great necessity indeed of getting a little
more silent than we are. It seems to me the finest nations of the
world--the English and the American--are going all away into wind
and tongue. (Applause and laughter.) But it will appear sufficiently
tragical by-and-bye, long after I am away out of it. Silence is the
eternal duty of a man. He wont get to any real understanding of
what is complex, and, what is more than any other, pertinent to his
interests, without maintaining silence.
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