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Knowledge is power, not only, but powder, putting the South in the risk of being blown up, by careless handling and too great abundance.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “Knowledge is power, not only, but powder, putting the South in the risk of being blown up, by careless handling and too…”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher metaphorically describes knowledge as both power and a potential danger for the South.
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Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!
If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.