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You have also given mankind the capacity to understand oneself by analogy with others,
“The fair Saxon man, with open front, and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made. But he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the nurture of children, for colleges, churches, charities, and colonies.”
― English Traits
― English Traits
“It is precisely when a person, who is borne down by inner emptiness and weariness or a sense of personal unworthiness, feels that he would like to withdraw from his task, that he should learn what it means to have a duty to perform in the fellowship, and”
― Life Together
― Life Together
“The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by the Book but by the force of arms.”
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
― The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
“the poverty of human intelligence has plenty to say, for inquiry employs more words than the discovery of the solution;”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“It is race, is it not? that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe. Race avails much, if that be true, which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics, and all Saxons are Protestants; that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.”
― English Traits
― English Traits
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