Men Who Pass Most Comfortably Through This

But Is It Not The Fact That Religion Emanates From The Nature, From The Moral State Of The Individual? Is It Not Therefore True That Unless The Nature Be Completely Exercised, The Moral State Harmonized, The Religion Cannot Be Healthy?

The Instruction Furnished Is Not Good Enough For The Youth Of Such A Country ... There Is Not Even Any Systematic Instruction Given On Political Morals: An Enormous Deficiency In A Republic.

It Is Not Quite True That There Are No Good Letters Written In America: Among My Own Circle Of Correspondents There, There Are Ladies And Gentlemen Whose Letters Would Stand A Comparison With Any For Frankness, Grace, And Epistolary Beauty Of Every Kind. But I Am Not Aware Of Any Medium Between This Excellence And The Boarding-school Insignificance Which Characterizes The Rest.

Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring Modesty. If It Be So, Let The Modesty Succumb. It Can Be Only A False Modesty Which Can Be Thus Endangered.

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.