I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
Civilization is a stream with banks.
The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing,
stealing, shouting, while on the banks,
unnoticed, people build homes, raise children,
sing songs, write poetry, and generally live.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,
and we have trusted only to rhetoric.
If we are really to be a great nation,
we must not merely talk;
we must act big.
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it
and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief
that it is in course of ultimate extinction,
or its advocates will push it forward,
till it shall become alike lawful in all the States old as well as new
North as well as South.