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But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.”
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Beecher asserts that New England has a significant role to play in global affairs, not a minor one.
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Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.
Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.
Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.