| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| |
| |
| NUMBER: | 6370 |
| QUOTATION: | We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Catherine E. Beecher (18001878), U.S. educator and author. Common Sense Applied to Religion, or the Bible and the People, ch. 4 (1857). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| |
| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
|
|