Let No Man Imagine That He Has

So Long As All The Increased Wealth Which Modern Progress Brings Goes But To Build Up Great Fortunes, To Increase Luxury And Make Sharper The Contrast Between The House Of Have And The House Of Want, Progress Is Not Real And Cannot Be Permanent.

Passing Into Higher Forms Of Desire, That Which Slumbered In The Plant, And Fitfully Stirred In The Beast, Awakes In The Man.

My Primary Object Is To Defend And Advance A Principle In Which I See The Only Possible Relief From Much That Enthralls And Degrades And Distorts, Turning Light To Darkness And Good To Evil, Rather Than To Gage A Philosopher Or Weigh A Philosophy. Yet The Examination I Propose Must Lead To A Decisive Judgment Upon Both.

I Do Not Think That Any Sorrow Of Youth Or Manhood Equalled In Intensity Or Duration The Black And Hopeless Misery Which Followed The Wrench Of Transference From A Happy Home To A School.

To Prevent Government From Becoming Corrupt And Tyrannous, Its Organization And Methods Should Be As Simple As Possible, Its Functions Be Restricted To Those Necessary To The Common Welfare, And In All Its Parts It Should Be Kept As Close To The People And As Directly Within Their Control As May Be.