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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: N.Y.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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14067 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) BY GEORGE S. MERRIAM ^^^j^ARKiKT Bkkchkr Stowe shared the general conditions ofinheritance and nurture which bred the strongest group ofthinkers and authors that America has produced. It wasthe peculiarity of early New England to combine an intense interestin the supreme questions of human destiny, regarded as the basis ofthe personal life, with the closest application to industrial and practi-cal affairs. Calvinism stimulated thought on religious problems; andaustere conditions of soil and climate enforced on the sturdy Englishstock the practice of industry, thrift, and shrewdness. For two cen-turies the narrowness of the dogmatic creed, and the awfulness of itssanctions, checked any free or original exploit of the intellect. Thencame in a great enlargement of conditions, and a fresh stimulus.With the birth of the nation, brains and hands began to stretch outfrom their provincial cradle toward continental expansion. The riseof national question

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