• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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1. historian
2. principle
3. destroyed
4. feudalism
5. america
6. abolish

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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