Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.
Henry Ward Beecher: “Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.”
Editor's note · Context
This passage discusses the limitations of studying humanity solely through observable phenomena.
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