Two Lectures On the History of the American Union
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But when the principle of a provi- dential government of the human race is recog- nised, as it must be by every mind whose belief has advanced beyond the confines of absolute atheism, and also when, during a long course of years, — near three hundred years in the case to which I wish to apply the principle, — you can trace a correspondence between the events of such a period and a final result, I do not know why we need fear to affirm that those events were provi- dentially controlled and guide...d to that result.
This conviction is further strengthened when we 24 THE UNION.
can perceive beyond such result adequate conse- quences, can see how that result was in the future to be productive of good. The evidence of such consequences is in the knowledge that the form of government which alone renders popular in- stitutions compatible with extent of territory is that form which has its origin in this ancient element of Saxon local self-government. "Who can question that it is such a political system that has expanded this republic from its primitive circumscription to its present extent, so that that which at first reached not far beyond the sound of the Atlantic became enlarged beyond the mountains, then beyond the Mississippi, and now, having crossed the second great mountain- range of the continent, has on its other border the sound of the earth's other great ocean?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But when the principle of a provi- dential government of the human race is recog- nised, as it must be by every mind whose belief has advanced beyond the confines of absolute atheism, and also when, during a long course of years, — near three hundred years in the case to which I wish to apply the principle, — you can trace a correspondence between the events of such a period and a final result, I do not know why we need fear to affirm that those events were provi- dentially controlled and guide...d to that result.
This conviction is further strengthened when we 24 THE UNION.
can perceive beyond such result adequate conse- quences, can see how that result was in the future to be productive of good. The evidence of such consequences is in the knowledge that the form of government which alone renders popular in- stitutions compatible with extent of territory is that form which has its origin in this ancient element of Saxon local self-government. "Who can question that it is such a political system that has expanded this republic from its primitive circumscription to its present extent, so that that which at first reached not far beyond the sound of the Atlantic became enlarged beyond the mountains, then beyond the Mississippi, and now, having crossed the second great mountain- range of the continent, has on its other border the sound of the earth's other great ocean?
What to read after Two Lectures On the History of the American Union?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Henry Reed to read onlineMoreLess
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