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You Cannot Criticize The New Testament. It Criticizes You.

Wherever You See A Man Who Gives Someone Else's Corruption, Someone Else's Prejudice As A Reason For Not Taking Action Himself, You See A Cog In The Machine That Governs Us.

A Magazine Or A Newspaper Is A Shop. Each Is An Experiment And Represents A New Focus, A New Ratio Between Commerce And Intellect.

The World Values The Seer Above All Men, And Has Always Done So. Nay, It Values All Men In Proportion As They Partake Of The Character Of Seers. The Elgin Marbles And A Decision Of John Marshall Are Valued For The Same Reason. What We Feel In Them Is A Painstaking Submission To Facts Beyond The Author's Control, And To Ideas Imposed On Him By His Vision. So With Beethoven's Symphonies, With Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations - With Any Conceivable Output Of The Human Mind Of Which You Approve. You Love Them Because You Say, These Things Were Not Made, They Were Seen.

The Average Educated Man In America Has About As Much Knowledge Of What A Political Idea Is As He Has Of The Principles Of Counterpoint. Each Is A Thing Used In Politics Or Music Which Those Fellows Who Practice Politics Or Music Manipulate Somehow. Show Him One And He Will Deny That It Is Politics At All. It Must Be Corrupt Or He Will Not Recognize It. He Has Only Seen Dried Figs. He Has Only Thought Dried Thoughts. A Live Thought Or A Real Idea Is Against The Rules Of His Mind.