Matthew Edmonds, a Quaker who runs a station on the Underground Railway, tells the three men who are hunting an escaped slave:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
-copied from here.
This is Luke 4:18 and yet another Andersonian Biblical quotation. Poul Anderson's narrative moves into an indefinite future, taking the message of liberation with it.
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