Henry Ward Beecher: “And in Society, in the North, there are no classes except such as rise…”

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And in Society, in the North, there are no classes except such as rise out of spontaneous forces.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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This quote suggests that in Northern society, class distinctions arise naturally rather than through imposed structures.

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Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.

The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

Henry Ward Beecher: “And in Society, in the North, there are no classes except such as rise out of spontaneous forces.”