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It is the glorious exercise of mind upon nature.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “It is the glorious exercise of mind upon nature.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher celebrates the intellectual engagement with nature as a hallmark of progress.
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Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.
It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.
The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.