John Brown and His Men: With Some Account of the Roads They Travelled to Reach Harper's Ferry (Classic Reprint)

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IT is the cant of to-day to sneer at Sacrifice. It is not scientific to act without a visible reward or hope of material success. It is scientific to assume that sacrifice is but another and, it may be, foolish form Of Self-love.

Nevertheless, sacrifices are made Defenders of systems always assume that the majestic forces Of Religion, the exalted functions Of Order and Justice, or those within the shimmering arena of Knowledge, belong to them alone. They declare that he who resists should die as the fool dieth. Perhaps the lives I have outlined herein may help to prove that true and natural religion, that wisdom and knowledge, are also united, not divorced This book may show, Ihope, that generosity remains to bless our human lives; that an integral part Of manhood and woman hood is service from each to all, for the life of each and the advancement of all

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