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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Proclamation by the President, appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiving. (search)
iest wisdom. It was there that the Sun of Righteousness first arose, and blended its fructifying rays with that luminary, which is spoken of in Scripture as a type of the spiritual energy and life-giving power of the Son of God. Why has Northern Asia been always barbarous, and Southern Asia been always civilized ? Why, if the Northern theory be true, was Egypt the most civilized and powerful of nations, the granary of the world, the land of intelligent and persevering industry, bearing eSouthern Asia been always civilized ? Why, if the Northern theory be true, was Egypt the most civilized and powerful of nations, the granary of the world, the land of intelligent and persevering industry, bearing evidence even now, in its pyramids, obelisks and catacombs, of a combination of labor and art which even modern civilization has not been able to equal ? Or, if cold is necessary to enliven and stir into action human energy and genius, what do they make of the valor, the enterprise, the philosophy, the arts, the eloquence, the refinement, the civilization of sunny Greece ? What of Rome, the mightiest power that ever dominated the earth, whose soldiers were capable of doing more, of daring more,