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A fascinating and deeply problematic figure whose antebellum militant abolitionism was coupled with his postbellum support for a pro-business social darwinism.
The links and tensions between these two currents in Beecher's life are of continuing relevance to US progressives today.
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Henry Ward Beecher, born on this day, in 1813.
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Gravitation
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.
~ Henry Ward Beecherslip:4a863.
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