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In The Great And Deep Qualities Of Mind, Heart, And Soul, There Is No Change. Homer And Solomon Speak To The Same Nature In Man That Is Reached By Shakespeare And Lincoln. But In The Accidents, The Surroundings, The Change Is Vast. All Things Now Are Mobile--movable.

The Real Difficulty Is With The Vast Wealth And Power In The Hands Of The Few And The Unscrupulous Who Represent Or Control Capital. Hundreds Of Laws Of Congress And The State Legislatures Are In The Interest Of These Men And Against The Interests Of Workingmen. These Need To Be Exposed And Repealed. All Laws On Corporations, On Taxation, On Trusts, Wills, Descent, And The Like, Need Examination And Extensive Change. This Is A Government Of The People, By The People, And For The People No Longer. It Is A Government Of Corporations, By Corporations, And For Corporations.

General Education Is The Best Preventive Of The Evils Now Most Dreaded. In The Civilized Countries Of The World, The Question Is How To Distribute Most Generally And Equally The Property Of The World. As A Rule, Where Education Is Most General The Distribution Of Property Is Most General.... As Knowledge Spreads, Wealth Spreads. To Diffuse Knowledge Is To Diffuse Wealth. To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Knowledge Is The Best And Surest Way To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Property.

Have Been Reading "genesis" Several Sundays, Not As A Christian Reads For "spiritual Consolation," "instruction," Etc., Not As Aninfidel Reads To Carp And Quarrel And Criticize, But As One Who Wishes To Be Informed And Furnished In The Earliest And Most Wonderful Of All Literary Productions. The Literature Of The Bible Should Be Studied As One Studies Shakespeare, For Illustration And Language, For Its True Pictures Of Man And Woman Nature, For Its Early Historical Record.

I Am Asked If I Would Not Be Gratified If My Friends Would Procure Me Promotion To A Brigadier-generalship. My Feeling Is That I Would Rather Be One Of The Good Colonels Than One Of The Poor Generals. The Colonel Of A Regiment Has One Of The Most Agreeable Positions In The Service, And One Of The Most Useful. "a Good Colonel Makes A Good Regiment," Is An Axiom.