Of how little value is a ship standing helpless on the stocks--but half-built, and yet building--to one who has no knowledge of the ocean, or of what that helpless hulk will become the moment she slides into her element, and rises and falls upon the flood with joyous greeting!
This quote illustrates the potential of something unfinished, emphasizing the importance of vision and knowledge in recognizing value.
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There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.
And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.
In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.
Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.