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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Appendix
that has somehow got started, and is
sweeping across the continent?
“Such questions are full of significance, even if
not easily answered. The philosophy of
epidemical influences in society is better
understood than it was a generation ago; but
we suspect the subject is far from being
cleared up yet. We need more light, both as to
the incipient causes and the concomitant
conditions which allow such alarming potency
to causes that seemed to be latent, until, all at
once, they break forth, as if thousands had
suddenly taken to the habit of carrying loose
powder and matches in the same pocket. ‘As a
man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’ Is it, then,
that somehow communities get to thinking of
the same ill things, and the bad thought
becomes a tempting suggestion, and forthwith
