Which Is Now A More Hopeful Statement

We Have Conferred A Mystic Popularity Upon Officials Whose Only Virtue Is Their Timidity; While Our Scorn Of Rebels And Reformers Is So Great That We Have Ceased To Persecute Them. The Capitals And Governments Of The World Are In The Hands Of Caution; And Change Comes Over Them Only In The Night, Unseen.

Inquiry Is Fatal To Certainty.

Which Is Now A More Hopeful Statement Than Swift Intended It To Be.

If A Man Is Fortunate He Will, Before He Dies, Gather Up As Much As He Can Of His Civilized Heritage And Transmit It To His Children.

History Offers Some Consolation By Reminding Us That Sin Has Flourished In Every Age.