A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs

The Penny Post Will Do More For The Circulation Of Ideas, For The Fostering Of Domestic Affections, For The Humanizing Of The Mass Generally, Than Any Other Single Measure That Our National Wit Can Devise.

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

As New Discoveries Are Causing All-penetrating Physical Lights So To Abound As That, As Has Been Said, We Shall Soon Not Know Where In The World To Get Any Darkness, So Our New Facilities For Every Sort Of Communication Work To Reduce Privacy Much Within Its Former Limits.

As The Astronomer Rejoices In New Knowledge Which Compels Him To Give Up The Dignity Of Our Globe As The Centre, The Pride, And Even The Final Cause Of The Universe, So Do Those Who Have Escaped From The Christian Mythology Enjoy Their Release From The Superstition Which Fails To Make Them Happy, Fails To Make Them Good, Fails To Make Them Wise, And Has Become As Great An Obstacle In The Way Of Progress As The Prior Mythologies Which It Took The Place Of Two Thousand Years Ago.

The Imagination, Once Awakened, Must And Will Work, And Ought To Work