Author : Henry W. Bellows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330734889
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (348 download)
Book Synopsis The War to End Only When the Rebellion Ceases (Classic Reprint) by : Henry W. Bellows
Download or read book The War to End Only When the Rebellion Ceases (Classic Reprint) written by Henry W. Bellows and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War to End Only When the Rebellion Ceases It is very little to our credit that we surpass the very best of foreign nations in morals and piety. We might as well boast of the larger products of our fat Western soil! The question for us is - and God is putting it now with fearful distinctness - are we in any fair degree equal in our morals and piety, as a people, to our talents, opportunities, and privileges? If we are not, we are sure to suffer by laws as inexorable as those that govern the stars in their courses. Privileges of all kinds involve relative responsibilities. Light must illumine or blind; liberty turn to law or license; knowledge expand or puff up; wealth refine or soften and betray. Religion, if it does not make saints, makes hypocrites or atheists! This American people must either be the best or the guiltiest people on God's earth. There is no middle place for it. Its gifts, endowments, historic and physical position, political, economical, educational, and religious circumstances and opportunities are, in character and sum, so vast, peculiar, emphatic, and providential, that they must either prove a mighty pedestal, lifting America to an unparalleled glory, or a stone of wrath, falling upon our heads and grinding us to powder. There can be no doubt that for five and twenty years past, to say the least, the American people have been making greater progress in every thing else rather than in morals and piety. They have advanced immensely in area, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, wealth, and power! The triumphs of their ships and their iron-roads, their canals and their intercommunications of all kind; the discovery of the mines of California; the invention of telegraphy; the vast growth of the planting interest - these have been kept full pace with by their improved systems of popular education; their rapid advances in the arts and sciences; in the application of machinery to tillage; in the extra ordinary improvement in the character, style, and comfort of dwellings, the architecture of public buildings, and the decoration of cities. Church-building itself, within that period, has made a notable improvement. Meanwhile, the popularization of music, of painting and sculpture, of photographic art, of landscape gardening, and rural cemeteries and public parks, has thrown a cultivated and refined air about our civilization, which has been similarly marked in costume and domestic elegance. 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.
