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She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.
Said by
Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgShe has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.
Beecher suggests that New England has yet to fully express its potential and contributions to the continent.
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Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.
Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.
The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.
They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.