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Our Republican Ideas Cannot Be Consistently Carried Out While Women Are Excluded From Any Share In The Government. ... Any Class Of Human Beings To Whom A Position Of Perpetual Subordination Is Assigned, However Much They May Be Petted And Flattered, Must Inevitably Be Dwarfed, Morally And Intellectually.

Reverence Is The Highest Quality Of Man's Nature; And That Individual, Or Nation, Which Has It Slightly Developed, Is So Far Unfortunate. It Is A Strong Spiritual Instinct, And Seeks To Form Channels For Itself Where None Exists; Thus Americans, In The Dearth Of Other Objects To Worship, Fall To Worshiping Themselves.

The Boughs Of No Two Trees Ever Have The Same Arrangement. Nature Always Produces Individuals; She Never Produces Classes.

It Is Wonderful How Shy Even Liberal Ministers Generally Are About Trusting People With The Plain Truth Concerning Their Religion. They Want To Veil It In A Supernatural Haze. They Are Very Reluctant To Part With The Old Idea That God Has Given To Jews And Christians A Peculiar Monopoly Of Truth. It Is A Selfish View Of God's Government Of The World, And It Is Time That We Knew Enough To Outgrow It.

Affectation Is Fond Of Making A Greater Show Than Reality. ... Nature And Truth Have Never Learned To Blow The Trumpet, And Never Will.