The Sublimity Connected With Vastness, Is Familiar

New York Is Essentially National In Interest, Position, Pursuits. No One Thinks Of The Place As Belonging To A Particular State, But To The United States.

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.

We Can All Perceive The Difference Between Ourselves And Our Inferiors, But When It Comes To A Question Of The Difference Between Us And Our Superiors We Fail To Appreciate Merits Of Which We Have No Proper Conceptions.

The Ability To Discriminate Between That Which Is True And That Which Is False Is One Of The Last Attainments Of The Human Mind.

The Minority Of A Country Is Never Known To Agree, Except In Its Efforts To Reduce And Oppress The Majority.