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To work is, therefore, prima facie evidence of degradation.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “To work is, therefore, prima facie evidence of degradation.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher suggests that engaging in labor can be seen as a sign of social degradation in certain contexts.
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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!
Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.
She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!
But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.