Our Greatest Want

By Watkins, Frances Ellen

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Title:	Our Greatest Want
Author:	Watkins, Frances Ellen
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism., Literature--Women authors, Literature
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Women Writers Collection
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Excerpt: Leading ideas impress themselves upon communities and countries. A thought is evolved and thrown out among the masses, they receive it and it becomes inter-woven with their mental and moral life--if the thought be good the receivers are benefited, and helped onward to the truer life; if it is not, the reception of the idea is a detriment. A few earnest thinkers, and workers in-fuse into the mind of Great Britain, a sentiment of human brotherhood. The hue and cry of opposition is raised against it. Avarice and cupidity oppose it, but the great heart of the people throbs for it. A healthy public opinion dashes and surges against the British throne, the idea gains ground and progresses till hundreds of thousands of men, women and children arise, redeemed from bondage, and freed from chains, and the nation gains moral power by the act.