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- Title: Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources
- Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Release Date : January 14, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Religion & Spirituality,Judaism,History,Ancient,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 908 KB
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The object of the following pages will be to show, in a series of biographical sketches, a history of WOMANHOOD UNDER DIVINE CULTURE, tending toward the development of that high ideal of woman which we find in modern Christian countries.
All the characters comprised in these sketches belong to one nationality. They are of that mysterious and ancient race whose records begin with the dawn of history; who, for centuries, have been sifted like seed through all the nations of the earth, without losing either their national spirit or their wonderful physical and mental vigor.
By this nation the Scriptures, which we reverence, were written and preserved. From it came all the precepts and teachings by which our lives are guided in things highest and holiest; from it came He who is at once the highest Ideal of human perfection and the clearest revelation of the Divine...