The General Tendency Of Things Throughout The

It Is Not The Feeling Sure Of A Doctrine (be It What It May) Which I Call An Assumption Of Infallibility. It Is The Undertaking To Decide That Question For Others, Without Allowing Them To Hear What Can Be Said On The Contrary Side. And I Denounce And Reprobate This Pretension Not The Less, If Put Forth On The Side Of My Most Solemn Convictions.

Every Great Movement Must Experience Three Stages: Ridicule, Discussion, Adoption.

The Despotism Of Custom Is Everywhere The Standing Hindrance To Human Advancement.

All The Good Of Which Humanity Is Capable Is Comprised In Obedience.

A Stationary Condition Of Capital And Population Implies No Stationary State Of Human Improvement. There Could Be As Much Scope As Ever For All Kinds Of Mental Culture, And Moral And Social Progress.