The Western Continent: A Discourse, Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, July Fourth, 1841 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The rotundity of the earth was now fully believed by men of knowledge and research; the mariner's compass had been invented and applied to the pur poses of navigation; the art of printing had taught men, to some extent, to give permanency and rapid circulation to thought; and at the very dawn of the next century, originating, no doubt, in the same spirit of intellectual emancipation, the lights of religious li berty, which have never since been extinguished, were kindled up in some parts of Germany, and bla zed ou the mountains, amid the pure air and the clear streams of Switzerland. In one word, the old world was prepared for the birth of the new. The time appointed of heaven, and matured by the progress of man, and clearly indicated by the position and rela tions of the world, had arrived for the consummation of the grand result of pre-existing causes; and in that result to furnish a future cause which should, for centuries, and probably through all coming ages, put forth an influence, in shaping the destinies of the world, as powerful as any other event recorded on the page of history.

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