It Is Because The Spirit Is Inestimable,

What, In The Name Of Common-sense, Had I To Do With Any Better Society Than I Had Always Lived In?

In This Republican Country, Amid The Fluctuating Waves Of Our Social Life, Somebody Is Always At The Drowning-point.

There Are Many Things In This World That A Child Must Not Ask About.

As The Moral Gloom Of The World Overpowers All Systematic Gaiety, Even So Was Their Home Of Wild Mirth Made Desolate Amid The Sad Forest.

But This Had Been A Sin Of Passion, Not Of Principle, Nor Even Purpose.