To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits of the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have
tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.
The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain.
Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty."
Then the aspirant must not only be
tested in those labours and dangers and pleasures which we mentioned before, but there is another kind of probation which we did not mention--he must be exercised also in many kinds of knowledge, to see whether the soul will be able to endure the highest of all, will faint under them, as in any other studies and exercises.
Thus by keeping it secret thou wilt not escape thy sorrow, but rather thou wilt shed tears unceasingly, if not tears of the eyes, tears of blood from the heart, like those shed by that simple doctor our poet tells us of, that tried the test of the cup, which the wise Rinaldo, better advised, refused to do; for though this may be a poetic fiction it contains a moral lesson worthy of attention and study and imitation.
And if thou didst, and if the stone should resist so silly a test, that would add nothing to its value or reputation; and if it were broken, as it might be, would not all be lost?
"I am an aspirant to membership in the palace guard," I said, "and from yonder window in the tower where I was confined awaiting the final
test for fitness I saw this brute attack the this woman.
All the rest had failed to stand the test of the books.
As for me, I am an inveterate opponent of socialism just as I am an inveterate opponent of your own mongrel democracy that is nothing else than pseudo-socialism masquerading under a garb of words that will not stand the test of the dictionary."
"Test? Yes, I know; but they're all right; I laid a few in the public road beyond our lines and they've been tested."
You see they didn't really come to test the torpedoes; that was merely an incident."
You dispute it." (Cheers.) "Then I put you to the
test. Will you accredit one or more of your own number to go out as your representatives and
test my statement in your name?"
Lecount had succeeded in imposing on Miss Garth; and would, in any event, still declare, on the evidence of his own eyes, that the
test by the marks on the neck had utterly failed.
We must
test it." But a torch one of the Indians threw in burned with a steady glow.
In short, the cost of an article of furniture has at length come to be, with us, nearly the sole
test of its merit in a decorative point of view - and this
test, once established, has led the way to many analogous errors, readily traceable to the one primitive folly.