AMERICA

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In 1876 Thomas Huxley visited America especially to speak at the new Johns Hopkins University, and this was his message: “I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur; territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity and the terror of overhanging fate, is, What are you going to do with all these things?”

— Thomas Huxley

The point

Thomas Huxley told Johns Hopkins in 1876 that a nation's size and wealth are not what make it great.

Scripture

Proverbs 14:34Psalm 33:12

Audience

Adults

Tone

Convicting · Inspiring

To tell aloud

under a minute · 78 words

Subjects

Character America Greatness Values

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