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Rh "Truth, though now hewn like the mangled body of Osiris into a thousand pieces, and scattered to the four winds of heaven, shall be gathered limb to limb, and moulded with every joint and member into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection."&mdash;.

"Therefore the nation, as it has its end in the moral realization of the life of humanity, is to regard each individual person also as an end, for there is for each the infinite sacredness which is revealed in the Christ, the life of humanity. The Christ who is declared to be the head of humanity 'is the head of every man.' In the Christ, there is the unity and foundation of humanity in its divine origin, and the realization of personality is in its redemptive life. "In the Christ there is the revelation of the divine life of humanity. It is held in no abstract and formal conception as the evolution of a logical sequence; it is held in no vague and empty conception, as in an unhistorical existence; it is the resultant of no numerical estimate; it is no indefinite and unlimited being in which the consciousness of the individual is lost; but there is the revelation of humanity in its realization in personality, in its divine relations."&mdash;.

"In the Christ, as the Prophet and Priest and King, there is alone the source of the prophetic and priestly and kingly powers in humanity. The comprehension of humanity in an isolated individualism is false and unreal. It is the source only of an evil egoism."&mdash;.

"The policy of emancipation and of employing black soldiers gave to the future a new aspect, about which hope and fear and doubt contended in uncertain conflict. According to our political system, as a matter of civil administration, the general government had no lawful power to effect emancipation in any State, and for a long time it had been hoped that the rebellion could be suppressed without resorting to it as a military measure. It was all the while deemed possible that the necessity for it might come, and that if it should the crisis of the contest would then be presented."&mdash;.

"The thought that every one, even the least, his welfare, his rights, his dignity, is the concern of the state,&mdash;that every one in his own personality is to be regarded and protected and honored and esteemed, without respect to ancestry or rank or race or gifts, if only he bear the human face and form,&mdash;this is the characteristic principle of the age, and its true distinction. This principle is alien to the earlier ages, and even to the age of the Reformation. It is first in the modern age that humanity in its full conception has become an energizing principle of right and duty, determining the whole order of society."&mdash;.