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By John Quincy Adams
In what light soever we regard it, whether with reference to revelation, to literature, to history, or to morality—it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
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- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to his son, on the Bible and its teachings, 1848 · p. 20
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1848 first edition, Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co.)
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From John Quincy Adams's letters to his son George Washington Adams on the Bible, published as Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings (Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co., 1848). He is describing the Bible as history, as literature and as a guide to morals.