It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.


West Point oration (ed. 1864)

George B. McClellan Quotes

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the...

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the...

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the...

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the...