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The World Values The Seer Above All Men, And Has Always Done So. Nay, It Values All Men In Proportion As They Partake Of The Character Of Seers. The Elgin Marbles And A Decision Of John Marshall Are Valued For The Same Reason. What We Feel In Them Is A Painstaking Submission To Facts Beyond The Author's Control, And To Ideas Imposed On Him By His Vision. So With Beethoven's Symphonies, With Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations - With Any Conceivable Output Of The Human Mind Of Which You Approve. You Love Them Because You Say, These Things Were Not Made, They Were Seen.

The Power Of Quotation Is As Dreadful A Weapon As Any Which The Human Intellect Can Forge.

There Are Plenty Of People To Whom The Crucial Problem Of Their Lives Never Get Presented In Terms That They Can Understand.

As For Boredom ... I Notice That It Leaves Me As Soon As I Am Doing Something That Has Got To Be Done.

If American Politics Does Not Look To You Like A Joke, A Tragic Dance; If You Have Enough Blindness Left In You, On Any Plea, On Any Excuse, To Vote For The Democratic Party Or The Republican Party (for At Present Machine And Party Are One), Or For Any Candidate Who Does Not Stand For A New Era, -- Then You Yourself Pass Into The Slide Of The Magic-lantern; You Are An Exhibit, A Quaint Product, A Curiosity Of The American Soil. You Are Part Of The Problem.