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“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”

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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the United States, born on October 4, 1822, and died on January 17, 1893. During his presidency, he focused on maintaining national unity and restoring the economy, implementing a series of reform measures. more

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Book:Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)
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“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.”

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