The Woman Who Is Known Only Through

A Period Of About Twelve Years Measured The Beat Of The Pendulum. After The Declaration Of Independence, Twelve Years Had Been Needed To Create An Efficient Constitution; Another Twelve Years Of Energy Brought A Reaction Against The Government Then Created; A Third Period Of Twelve Years Was Ending In A Sweep Toward Still Greater Energy; And Already A Child Could Calculate The Result Of A Few More Such Returns.

There Are Two Things That Seem To Be At The Bottom Of Our Constitutions; One Is A Continual Tendency Towards Politics; The Other Is Family Pride; And It Is Strange How These Two Feelings Run Through All Of Us.

The Difference Is Slight, To The Influence Of An Author, Whether He Is Read By Five Hundred Readers, Or By Five Hundred Thousand; If He Can Select The Five Hundred, He Reaches The Five Hundred Thousand.

For Reasons Which Many Persons Thought Ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee Decided To Pass The Winter In Washington.

Throughout Human History The Waste Of Mind Has Been Appalling, And, As This Story Is Meant To Show, Society Has Conspired To Promote It. No Doubt The Teacher Is The Worst Criminal, But The World Stands Behind Him And Drags The Student From His Course.