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Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

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We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

The Prophet ... feels it as a moral necessity to set Righteousness on the throne.

Selected Essays (1904)

There are ... two ways of doing service in the cause of an idea; and the difference between them is that which in ancient days distinguished the Priest from the Prophet.

Selected Essays (1904)

It is pre-eminently among the ancient Hebrews that Prophecy is found, not as an accidental or temporary phenomenon, but continuously through many generations. Prophecy is, as it were, the hall-mark of the Hebrew national spirit.

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