The West is a young empire of mind, and power, and wealth, and free institutions, rushing up to a giant manhood, with a rapidity and a power never before witnessed below the sun. A Plea for the West - Page 10by Lyman Beecher - 1835 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theology - 1835 - 700 pages
...republic is to be decided in the West ; " a young empire of mind, and power, and wealth, rushing up to giant manhood with a rapidity and a power never before witnessed below the sun." No one can doubt this fact, who will ponder, even for a short time, the extent, resources and numerical... | |
| Will Converse Wood - Church and state - 1877 - 404 pages
...is said significantly, "It was delivered in several of the Atlantic cities." " The West," said he, "is a young empire of mind and power and wealth and free institutions, rushing up to a giant with a rapidity and a power never before witnessed below the sun ; and, if she carries with her the... | |
| Electronic journals - 1923 - 392 pages
...Proceedings, new series, 29:235. 192 George M. Stephenson MVHR der heaven, must affect powerfully the cause of free institutions and the liberty of the world....rushing up to a giant manhood, with a rapidity and power never before witnessed below the sun. And if she carries with her the elements of her preservation,... | |
| Constance Rourke - Authors, American - 1927 - 508 pages
...famous Plea for the West. "The West is destined to be the great central power of the nation. . . . The West is a young empire of mind, and power, and...and a power never before witnessed below the sun. . . . Such an extent of forest never fell before the arm of man, and gave place as by enchantment,... | |
| Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...the Pope" figured prominently in this manifesto, he also showed more liberal and far-sighted views: The West is a young empire of mind, and power, and...a giant manhood with a rapidity and a power never witnessed below the sun. And if she carries with her the elements of her preservation, the experiment... | |
| Philip McFarland - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 334 pages
...views of the people correspond with these relative proportions," he exulted with characteristic spirit. "The West is a young empire of mind and power and...and a power never before witnessed below the sun." Likewise his family, looking back on the same early times at Walnut Hills, would recall an intense... | |
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