It Is A Testament To The Strength

It Is The Worst Humiliation And Grievance Of The Suffering, That They Cause Suffering.

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.

If The National Mind Of America Be Judged Of By Its Legislation, It Is Of A Very High Order ... If The American Nation Be Judged Of By Its Literature, It May Be Pronounced To Have No Mind At All.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.