The Hand of God in American History
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Excerpt from The Hand of God in American History: A Discourse Delivered in the Baptist Church, Keeseville, N. Y., July 7, 1861; Also Before the United Literary Societies of New Hampton Institution, Fairfax, Vt;, July 15, 1861 If we look into the History of Nations, we shall find that not a few of them supposed themselves to be the special favourites of Divine Providence. If we inquire also into the state of national feeling, as it now exists in different countries, we shall find, in numbers of them, no lack of present evidences of the same assumption. I hardly need to say, so obvious is the truth, that in general the source of such an impression has been and is, an overweening national vanity. Were it necessary to furnish illustrations of this feeling, we could point not only to Ancient Greece and Rome, whose real superiority might be some justification of their exalted self-estimate; but we could point to the line of the proud Pharaohs, and to almost every Asiatic nation, whether of the past or of the present, particularly to China and Japan, whose matchless conceit utters itself in grandiloquence most pompously and ineffably absurd; we could point to the subjects of the Russian Autocrat, to the valorous but boastful sons of Gaul and Britain, and find in each of these examples of national arrogance. Nor are these all; if the statements of Historians and Travellers are to be credited, we could refer to some of even the most inconsiderable and abject tribes, and find among them specimens of vain-glory as inordinate, and of self-conceit as supercilious as are anywhere to be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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