TAKE HOPE 1809
was proclaimed by that year’s contemporary historians as the darkest time in the history of mankind. Napoleon was devastating Europe, and one writer predicted that future generations would call 1809 “the world’s blackest year.” Both freedom and social progress seemed doomed. Then look at the babies born that year: Abraham Lincoln, William Gladstone, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cyrus Hall McCormick, and Felix Mendhelson. The year was not one of total destruction.
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