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No people could despise its own language, customs, and institutions and hope to avoid national death.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
There has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Love and Light dwelt together in the highest heaven.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Mutual understanding, the true basis of all happy unions.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Who says he is equal with God?
Man is to-day, to-morrow he is not,
Iam is from eternity to eternity.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
To love truth, and to serve under its banner, come what may, that is courage truly, which will endure and stand the test of endless ages.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Have pity on my simplicity, for I am but a mortal.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Humility becometh well the triumphant.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
I do know, that gods are wont to make use of human instruments in approaching men. The Infinite finds expression in the finite, and the ideal is realised in the actual.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
Call me a thinker, a teacher, call me anything that is of the earth, but a god I cannot think that I am one, or can ever be.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
We worship that we do know.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)
It had been felt for a long time by men of light and leading in Fanti-land that the salvation of the people depended upon education; that to educate the youths of the country properly depended upon trained teachers; and that it was the work of a university to provide such training ground.
Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)