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... mind , all con- quering mind , shall live and move the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail fall of Fury ! Reign of Reason , all hail ! " - But when Lincoln was running for Congress in 1846 , his Democratic opponent , a ...
... mind , all con- quering mind , shall live and move the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail fall of Fury ! Reign of Reason , all hail ! " - But when Lincoln was running for Congress in 1846 , his Democratic opponent , a ...
Page 370
... mind of the South either stultifies itself into acquiescence with slavery , succumbs to its authority , or chafes in ... mind , thus en- slaved , necessarily loses its interests in the processes of other minds ; and its tendency is to ...
... mind of the South either stultifies itself into acquiescence with slavery , succumbs to its authority , or chafes in ... mind , thus en- slaved , necessarily loses its interests in the processes of other minds ; and its tendency is to ...
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... mind , which was speculative but also very rigorous , he must account for the war and his part in it in terms of a general philosophy , and it is here that his honesty as a thinker is to be seen at its most impressive . There is no cant ...
... mind , which was speculative but also very rigorous , he must account for the war and his part in it in terms of a general philosophy , and it is here that his honesty as a thinker is to be seen at its most impressive . There is no cant ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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