The Chief Difficulty Which Prevents Men Of

I Speak "with Absolute Certainty" Only So Far As My Own Personal Belief Is Concerned. Those Who Have Not The Same Warrant For Their Belief As I Have, Would Be Very Credulous And Foolish To Accept It On Blind Faith. Nor Does The Writer Believe Any More Than Her Correspondent And His Friends In Any "authority" Let Alone "divine Revelation"!

Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.

We Cut These Numerous Windings In Our Destinies Daily With Our Own Hands, While We Imagine That We Are Pursuing A Track On The Royal High Road Of Respectability And Duty, And Then Complain Of Those Ways Being So Intricate And So Dark. We Stand Bewildered Before The Mystery Of Our Own Making, And The Riddles Of Life That We Will Not Solve, And Then Accuse The Great Sphinx Of Devouring Us.

The Universe Is The Periodical Manifestation Of This Unknown Absolute Essence.

Is The Scraping Off Of A Barnacle The Destruction Of A Ship?