Is It So Bad, Then, To Be

Let There Be Worse Cotton And Better Men.

The Right Eloquence Needs No Bell To Call The People Together, And No Constable To Keep Them.

One Can Never Truly Savor Success Until First Tasting Adversity.

Yet Things Are Knowable! They Are Knowable, Because, Being From One, Things Correspond. There Is A Scale: And The Correspondence Of Heaven To Earth, Of Matter To Mind, Of The Part To The Whole, Is Our Guide. As There Is A Science Of Stars, Called Astronomy; And Science Of Quantities, Called Mathematics; A Science Of Qualities, Called Chemistry; So There Is A Science Of Sciences,--i Call It Dialectic,--which Is The Intellect Discriminating The False And The True.

Many Of The Historical Proverbs Have A Doubtful Paternity.