Prologue: Chosen -- Part one: Promise. The scientific subject ; Providence ; "A beam in darkness' ; God's minute man ; Bleak mountain -- Part two: War. Hand and soul ; Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes ; Brains, flesh, and blood ; Casus belli ; The dark dreams of presidents ; "A desperate deed" -- Part three: Fear. "Thank God it is all over" ; "It's true" ; All evil consequences ; Blood-guilty -- Part four: Tortured for the Republic. Neither death nor life ; One nation ; "Keep heart" ; On a mountaintop, alone ; Terror, hope, and despair ; After all ; All the angels of the universe -- Epilogue: Forever and forever more.
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