On the record
To rescue humanity from this degradation is, we are taught to believe, the great object of God's moral government on earth.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Hoar emphasizes the moral imperative to uplift humanity from degradation.
Share
More from George F. Hoar
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
Other voices in this conversation
