Of such a creature it were as foolish to take an estimate, by what he is and what he can do in this life, as it would be to estimate by an eagle's egg, what the old eagle is worth, with wings outspread far above the very thunder, or coming down upon its quarry as the thunder comes!
Beecher uses the metaphor of an eagle to illustrate the profound potential and worth of a person beyond their immediate circumstances.
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