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It regards man not as a perfect thing, put into life to blossom and die, as a perfect flower doth.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgIt regards man not as a perfect thing, put into life to blossom and die, as a perfect flower doth.
Beecher critiques the notion of man as a perfect being, suggesting a more complex view of human existence.
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