Henry Ward Beecher: “Men often are profoundly ignorant of the principles which control…”

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Men often are profoundly ignorant of the principles which control their policy, as a ship is unconscious of the rudder that steers her.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher reflects on the ignorance of individuals regarding the principles that guide their actions.

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But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

Henry Ward Beecher: “Men often are profoundly ignorant of the principles which control their policy, as a ship is unconscious of the rudder…”