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Excerpt from How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter From English History
History, if it be not the merest toy, the idlest pastime of our vacant hours, is the record of the onward march of Humanity towards an end. Where there is no belief in such an end, and therefore no advance towards it, no stirrings of a Divine Word in a people's bosom, where not as yet the beast's heart has been tak away, and aman} s heart Lgiven, there History cannot be said to (be? They belo ng not, therefore, to History, least of all to sacred History, those Babels, those cities of confusion, those huge pens, into which by force and fraud, the early hunters of men, the Nimrods and the Sesostrises drave, and compelled their fellows: and Scripture is only most true to its idea while it passes them almost or wholly in silence by, while it lingers rather on the plains of Mamre with the man that 'believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness, ' than by 'populous N 0' or great Babylon, where no faith existed but in the blind powers of Nature, arid tlae'kix'ruztved ahead? Theijnathi'al man.
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