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Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that without divine revelation, humanity has historically assessed value through a singular lens.
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