Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Moral
  • Motive
  • Nerves