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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

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Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man,s life. . ..

Source: Life in the Iron Mills, in Atlantic Monthly, Apr 1861.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis, (Jun 24 1831-1910), US author, journalist, critic; She wrote Waiting for the Verdict, 1867 and Bits of Gossip, 1904.


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