In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?...
Beck calls for divine guidance in the search for political truth amidst the confusion of the Assembly's debates.
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The consequence is that again and again we are running the risk of perpetrating the most grotesque errors of judgment, of committing the most serious political blunders, in defiance of American public opinion.
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
It is indeed passing strange that in these days of cheap books and free education, America should be almost a 'terra incognita,' that we should know next to nothing of American history, of the American Constitution, of American practical…
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