Not a debt of literature, nor of art, nor of civil polity; not a debt of pecuniary obligation; not an ordinary debt.

He had nothing from all these outside sources.

The whole barbaric world was without the true knowledge of God.

He had that knowledge and he owed it to every man who had it not.

All the civilized world was, in these respects, without the true inspiration; and he owed it to them simply because they did not have it; and his debt to them was founded on this law of benevolence of which I have been speaking, which is to supersede selfishness, and according to which those who have are indebted to those who have not the world over."-- _Henry Ward Beecher_..