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• It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
• He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
• All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
• Calvin was virtually the founder of America.
• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
• Every generation is equidistant from God.
• In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present…

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