Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quote

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!


Extemporaneous discourses: delivered in the Broadway church, New York. First series (ed. 1860)


There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There...

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There...

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There...

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There...