A Thanksgiving Discourse
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Thanksgiving Discourse: Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, August 6th, 1863 But there was very little of a discriminating sense of their value. From a material point of view we could not be blind to their worth. We could not help seeing what power and wealth they were accumulating, how rapidly and to what greatness the nation was growing under them. But of their choicest uses, of their moral effect, of the part which they take in forming the character of the people, in breathing a soul into the nation, in a word, in making the nation what it is, we have had no clear and strong sense, and mainly for two reasons. First, because the moral influence of institutions is never a matter of outward observation. Although it is constant, it is silent and works in numberless unnoticed ways. Men are affected by it as by the light, and they take no more note of it than of the air that they are breathing. Rarely do they know what spirit they are of, or how much it is determined by the circumstances and social forms established around them. The moral results of these come under the eye only upon great occasions, at critical hours. And they cannot even then be handled, weighed, or measured. And then again we have failed to appreciate the moral effect of our free institutions, because it has been hidden from us by the steadily increasing disturbance caused by that unequal and oppressive institution which has been suffered to coexist with them. The trouble which this caused grew to be so serious that it soon came to monopolize public attention. For years past it has been the one engrossing topic. 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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