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There is nothing that so persuades us of the great realities of moral and spiritual being as the man in whom God is manifest, the type of our human nature at its best, and the indorsement of the sublime faith that God in humanity is the supreme revelation of Himself!

There is nothing that so persuades us of the great realities of moral and spiritual being as the man in whom God is manifest, the type of our human nature at its best, and the indorsement of the sublime faith that God in humanity is the supreme revelation of Himself!

In print by 1911 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Horatio Stebbins
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In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)

Complete signed selection 321; printed byline: Horatio Stebbins; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907

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