Poems and Other Writings

Name: Poems and Other Writings
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May it not be that the new man the world needs is the non-violent man? Longfellow said: ‘In this world a man must either be an anvil or the hammer.’ We must be hammers shaping a new society rather than anvils molded by the old.

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"May it not be that the new man the world needs is the non-violent man? Longfellow said: ‘In this world a man must either be an anvil or the hammer.’ We must be hammers shaping a new society rather than anvils molded by the old."

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