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2154. DEITY, An Overruling.—

We are not in a world ungoverned by the laws and
the power of a Superior Agent. Our efforts
are in His hand, and directed by it; and He
will give them their effect in His own time. [138]
To David Barrow. Washington ed. vi, 456. Ford ed., ix, 516.
(M. 1815)

 
[138]

Jefferson was writing on the subject of negro
emancipation.—Editor.