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pieces the power of Persia; and in the fens of the 

 Dutch and in the mountains of the Swiss these feel 

 ings defended happiness and revenged the oppres 

 sions of man ! God call's all the passions out in their 

 keenness and vigor for the present safety of man 

 kind, anger and revenge and the heroic mind, and 

 a readiness to suffer all the secret strength, all the 

 invisible array of the feelings all that nature has re 

 served for the great scenes of the world. When the 

 usual hopes and the common aids of man are all 

 gone, nothing remains under God but those passions 

 which have often proved the best ministers of His 

 purpose and the surest protectors of the world." 



