When A Man Talks With Absolute Sincerity

The World Values The Seer Above All Men, And Has Always Done So. Nay, It Values All Men In Proportion As They Partake Of The Character Of Seers. The Elgin Marbles And A Decision Of John Marshall Are Valued For The Same Reason. What We Feel In Them Is A Painstaking Submission To Facts Beyond The Author's Control, And To Ideas Imposed On Him By His Vision. So With Beethoven's Symphonies, With Adam Smith's Wealth Of Nations - With Any Conceivable Output Of The Human Mind Of Which You Approve. You Love Them Because You Say, These Things Were Not Made, They Were Seen.

One Of The Deepest Impulses In Man Is The Impulse To Record, - To Scratch A Drawing On A Tusk Or Keep A Diary, To Collect Sagas And Heap Cairns. This Instinct As To The Enduring Value Of The Past Is, One Might Say, The Very Basis Of Civilization.

I Want To Find Someone On The Earth So Intelligent That He Welcomes Opinions Which He Condemns.

The Reason For The Slow Progress Of The World Seems To Lie In A Single Fact. Every Man Is Born Under The Yoke, And Grows Up Beneath The Oppressions Of His Age.

The Worst Enemy Of Good Government Is Not Our Ignorant Foreign Voter, But Our Educated Domestic Railroad President, Our Prominent Business Man, Our Leading Lawyer.