Henry Ward Beecher: “She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its…”

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She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher uses a metaphor to describe the North's potential stagnation in the face of national challenges.

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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

Henry Ward Beecher: “She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.”