The Temple Of Silence And Reconciliation.

To That Class We May Leave It To Refine The Vernacular Dialects Of The Country, To Enrich Those Dialects With Terms Of Science Borrowed From The Western Nomenclature, And To Render Them By Degrees Fit Vehicles For Conveying Knowledge To The Great Mass Of The Population.

Facts Are The Mere Dross Of History. It Is From The Abstract Truth Which Interpenetrates Them, And Lies Latent Among Them, Like Gold In The Ore, That The Mass Derives Its Whole Value; And The Precious Particles Are Generally Combined With The Baser In Such A Manner That The Separation Is A Task Of The Utmost Difficulty.

Sense Can Support Herself Handsomely In Most Countries On Some Eighteen Pence A Day; But For Fantasy, Planets And Solar Systems, Will Not Suffice.

It Was Before Deity Embodied In A Human Form Walking Among Men, Partaking Of Their Infirmities, Leaning On Their Bosoms, Weeping Over Their Graves, Slumbering In The Manger, Bleeding On The Cross, That The Prejudices Of The Synagogue, And The Doubts Of The Academy, And The Pride Of The Portico, And The Fasces Of The Lictor, And The Swords Of Thirty Legions Were Humbled In The Dust.

And To Say That Society Ought To Be Governed By The Opinion Of The Wisest And Best, Though True, Is Useless. Whose Opinion Is To Decide Who Are The Wisest And Best?