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Title: Patriotic addresses in America and England : from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 Howard, John R. (John Raymond), 1837-1926
Subjects: Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 Slavery
Publisher: New York : Fords, Howard & Hulbert
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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boy-traps called dis-trict schools. Perhaps it would be hard to find anywhere a more aptand complete summing up of the characteristics with whichthis boy started life: physically strong, full of life, withkeenly sensitive nerves, quick to see and to feel the influ-ences of nature, especially in its aspects of poetry and free-dom from constraint, with a heart swiftly responsive tosympathetic treatment, combustible with merriment andwith tears, and a soul that instinctively reached out towardthe beautiful and the good. That which does not appearat this time, and which must have been very slow in mak-ing its appearance, was the remarkable mental capacity ofwhich the man was a notable example throughout his en-tire life, but which the boy seems to have shown no hint of. What he received from his father and mother by directinheritance certainly cannot be overlooked; and it is worthmore than a passing glance to consider what was the do-mestic atmosphere in which he grew through boyhood and
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HEREDITY, TRAINING, AND EDUCATION 19 youth to early manhood,—if only to show the shallownessof the small critics of our day, who because this greatoriginal thinker grew out luxuriantly in all directions be-yond the limits of the trellises on which their own slendervines were trained, are fain to say, He is a great talker;but he knows nothing of theology; the fact being that inHenry Ward Beechers youth, in old Connecticut, theologywas the food he ate, and the milk he drank, and the airhe breathed, and the ground he trod, from his very earliestyears. Theology was the only thing that he got a surfeit of,and doubtless it was out of his own familiarity with it, andhis final perception of its barrenness for good in practicallabor upon the souls of men, that he so impatiently wentbeyond it. Dr. Lyman Beecher was a born belligerent. He was aman of thorough theological training himself, under Dr.Dwight of New Haven, and in the controversies and feudsof the Congregational and Presbyterian and

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