His human horizon was contracted, to be sure.
It could hardly be otherwise in one so young.

His world was his country, and patriotism imposed limits upon his affections.

"Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country," was the ardent motto of the _Free Press_.

The love of family comes, in the order of growth, before the love of country; and the love of country precedes the love of all mankind.

"First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear," is the great law of love in the soul as of corn in the soil.