The Hand of God in American History: A Study of National Politics (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Hand of God in American History: A Study of National Politics

Why is it that the Bible account of a nation's history is so different from that kind of history which is written about nations in modern times? The Bible speaks of God as having a great deal to do with what was going on, and of his will as a controlling force in the movements of history. The modern history traces everything to secondary causes, mostly to the characters and the wills of leading people, to the external circumstances of the nation's existence, to the influence of great movements of public opinion, or to the influence one country exercises upon another.

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Excerpt from The Hand of God in American History: A Study of National Politics

In the year 1850 Prof. Henry Reed delivered two lectures on "The History of the American Union" before the Smithsonian Institute, and published them in Philadelphia. In these he tried to trace the workings of divine Providence in the welding together of the diverse and (seemingly) hopelessly divided materials of colonial America into a federal union. The reading of these lectures gave me a new point of view for the study of American history, and one which I have found useful in writing and lecturing on the subject. Out of my lectures especially has grown this book, whose inadequacy I deeply feel, but I have written it with the hope that others will be led by it to cultivate the field more fully.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.