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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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Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!
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These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.