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Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (June 17th, 1843) in delivering a stirring speech at the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, in referring to the Pilgrim fathers and the Bible said,
“They brought with them a full portion of the riches of the past, in science, art, morals, religion and literature. The Bible came with them. The Bible is a book of faith and a book of doctrine; it teaches man his own responsibility, how own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man . . . . I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain obvious meaning of its passages, since I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.”
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