The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers

Scarcely Anything That I Observed In The United States Caused Me So Much Sorrow As The Contemptuous Estimate Of The People Entertained By Those Who Were Bowing The Knee To Be Permitted To Serve Them.

The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always Been, And Is Still Considered Incompatible With Statesmanship. To Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness Has Been Naturally, As It Were, Supposed A Disqualification For Affairs.

It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Be Hopeful And Aspiring. It Is Characteristic Of Genius To Break Up The Artificial Arrangements Of Conventionalism, And To View Mankind In True Perspective, In Their Gradations Of Inherent Rather Than Of Adventitious Worth. Genius Is Therefore Essentially Democratic, And Has Always Been So.

My Business In Life Has Been To Think And Learn, And To Speak Out With Absolute Freedom What I Have Thought And Learned. The Freedom Is Itself A Positive And Never-failing Enjoyment To Me, After The Bondage Of My Early Life.

But Is It Not The Fact That Religion Emanates From The Nature, From The Moral State Of The Individual? Is It Not Therefore True That Unless The Nature Be Completely Exercised, The Moral State Harmonized, The Religion Cannot Be Healthy?