It gave us a broader freedom, and it laid upon us the obligation to live up to that freedom and to make it unlimited, for everybody. It was fought for freedom-and if ever anything was worth fighting a war for, freedom was and is the cause.Īnd that is why the Civil War is worth remembering. Under everything else, the war was about Negro slavery. And-let us never for a moment forget it-it WON something. Maybe man–some men, anyway–was made in the image of God, after all.” The only trouble is that you have to compose a planet, or great music, to say it persuasively. A woman I know says that to look at the Sleeping Bear late in the day is to feel the same emotion that comes when you listen to Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, and she is entirely right.
In the way this shining dune looks west toward the storms and the sunsets there is a profound serenity, an unworried affirmation that comes from seeing beyond time and mischance. Yet if this is a reminder that this part of the earth is still being remodeled it is also a hint that the spirit back of the remodeling may be worth knowing. Sleeping Bear looks eternal, although it is not this lake took its present shape no more than two or three thousand years ago, and Sleeping Bear is slowly drifting off to the east as the wind shifts its grains of sand, swirling them up one side and dropping them on the other in a few centuries it will be very different, if indeed it is there at all. It looks out over the dark water and the islands that lie just offshore, and in the late afternoon the sunlight strikes it and the golden sand turns white, with a pink overlay when the light is just so, and little cloud shadows slide along its face, blue-gray as evening sets in. “Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point–an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred feet above the level of the lake and going north for two miles or more.
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