Henry Ward Beecher: “A famished man may injure himself by over-feeding; but that is an…”

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A famished man may injure himself by over-feeding; but that is an argument not against food, but against famine.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher uses the analogy of overfeeding to argue that the dangers of liberty should not deter its pursuit.

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The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.

And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.

Henry Ward Beecher: “A famished man may injure himself by over-feeding; but that is an argument not against food, but against famine.”