The Common Faults Of American Language Are

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

Principles . . . Become Modified In Practice, By Facts.

An Interesting Fiction... However Paradoxical The Assertion May Appear... Addresses Our Love Of Truth- Not The Mere Love Of Facts Expressed By True Names And Dates, But The Love Of That Higher Truth, The Truth Of Nature And Principals, Which Is A Primitive Law Of The Human Mind.

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery.

All Greatness Of Character Is Dependent On Individuality.