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The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental…”
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Beecher discusses the nature of debates in American society over the past fifty years, emphasizing their focus on application rather than fundamental principles.
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