Henry Ward Beecher: “In these truths we find the reason why Christianity always takes hold so low down in human life.”

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.

If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.