But what the scholar could not do, Luther, the great heart, wrought easily.
Thus all the reforms represent passions and enthusiasms.

That citadel called "The Divine Right of Kings" was not overthrown by colleges with books and pamphlets.

It was the pulse-beats of the heart of the people that pounded down the Bastille.

Ideas of the iniquity of slavery floated through our land for three centuries, yet the slave pen and auction block still cursed our land.

At last an enthusiasm for man as man and a great passion for the poor stood behind these ideas of human brotherhood, and as powder stands behind the bullet, flinging forth its weapons, slavery perished before the onslaught of the heart.
The men whose duty it was to follow the line of battle and bury our dead soldiers tell us that in the dying hour the soldier's hand unclasped his weapon and reached for the inner pocket to touch some faded letter; some little keepsake, some likeness of wife or mother.
This pathetic fact tells us that soldiers have won their battles not by holding before the mind some abstract thought about the rights of man.
The philosopher did, indeed, teach the theory, and the general marked out the line of attack or defense, but it was love of home and God and native land that entered into the soldier and made his arm invincible.
Back of the emancipation proclamation stands a great heart named Lincoln.