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Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Age: 65 †
Born: 1814
Born: December 29
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Clergyman
Priest
E. H. Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Rev. Chapin
Along
Dropped
Seized
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Coast
Tread
Growing
Realms
Columbus
Force
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Inviting
Exhaustless
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Skies
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Truth
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Sky
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Coasts
World
Infinite
Newton
Sailed

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