Must Acknowledge, That To Act Properly Is

It Is Natural To Men To Judge Of Things Less Known, By Some Similitude They Observe, Or Think They Observe, Between Them And Things More Familiar Or Better Known. In Many Cases, We Have No Better Way Of Judging. And, Where The Things Compared Have Really A Great Similitude In Their Nature, When There Is Reason To Think That They Are Subject To The Same Laws, There May Be A Considerable Degree Of Probability In Conclusions Drawn From Analogy.

For The Perception Of The Beautiful We Have The Term "taste"--a Metaphor Taken From That Which Is Passive In The Body And Transferred To That Which Is Active In The Mind.

In Every Chain Of Reasoning, The Evidence Of The Last Conclusion Can Be No Greater Than That Of The Weakest Link Of The Chain, Whatever May Be The Strength Of The Rest.

When We Contemplate The World Of Epicurus, And Conceive The Universe To Be A Fortuitous Jumble Of Atoms, There Is Nothing Grand In This Idea. The Clashing Of Atoms By Blind Chance Has Nothing In It Fit To Raise Our Conceptions, Or To Elevate The Mind. But The Regular Structure Of A Vast System Of Beings, Produced By Creating Power, And Governed By The Best Laws Which Perfect Wisdom And Goodness Could Contrive, Is A Spectacle Which Elevates The Understanding, And Fills The Soul With Devout Admiration.

I Sit In My Loft With The Haves And Look Out At The Have-nots - The Bottom Of The Bottom - And I Have To Rationalize It, ... Am I Pushing Out The Homeless?