Period Instrument

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“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)