The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Education |
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Everyone understands both Joan of Arc and John Brown , but nobody can explain them . It takes an epoch , it takes the whole of a society , it takes a national and religious birthpang to produce either Joan of Arc or John Brown .
Everyone understands both Joan of Arc and John Brown , but nobody can explain them . It takes an epoch , it takes the whole of a society , it takes a national and religious birthpang to produce either Joan of Arc or John Brown .
Page 133
More than this : John Brown was the living embodiment of an idea with which the anti - slavery mind was always darkly battling — the idea of atonement , of vicarious suffering . Howe and his associates somehow felt that they would be ...
More than this : John Brown was the living embodiment of an idea with which the anti - slavery mind was always darkly battling — the idea of atonement , of vicarious suffering . Howe and his associates somehow felt that they would be ...
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One word must be added as to the effect of casuistry upon the intellect of those enthusiasts who backed Brown while begging him to be gentle . Dr. Howe writes to Theodore Parker : “ And I sent him a draft of fifty dollars as an earnest ...
One word must be added as to the effect of casuistry upon the intellect of those enthusiasts who backed Brown while begging him to be gentle . Dr. Howe writes to Theodore Parker : “ And I sent him a draft of fifty dollars as an earnest ...
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