On the record
And the only objection is, that if there were light and air let in, it would no longer be a dungeon.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “And the only objection is, that if there were light and air let in, it would no longer be a dungeon.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher suggests that allowing light and air into a dungeon would transform its oppressive nature.
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Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
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And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
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