It is the northern sentiment, and justly deduced from the Christian theory of man, that society should redeem all its own children from ignorance, should secure their growth, equip them for citizenship, make all the influences of society enure to the benefit of the mass of men.
Beecher believes society has a responsibility to educate and uplift all its members for the common good.
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It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.
She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.