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The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity, Since The Tastes, Knowledge, And Principles Of The Majority Form The Tribunal Of Appeal.

The Minority Of A Country Is Never Known To Agree, Except In Its Efforts To Reduce And Oppress The Majority.

It Is A Governing Principle Of Nature, That The Agency Which Can Produce Most Good, When Perverted From Its Proper Aim, Is Most Productive Of Evil. It Behooves The Well-intentioned, Therefore, Vigorously To Watch The Tendency Of Even Their Most Highly Prized Institutions, Since That Which Was Established In The Interests Of The Right, May So Easily Become The Agent Of The Wrong.

Everybody Says It, And What Everybody Says Must Be True.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.