Where Are Your Combing Seas, Your Blue

America Owes Most Of Its Social Prejudices To The Exaggerated Religious Opinions Of The Different Sects Which Were So Instrumental In Establishing The Colonies.

The Americans... Are Almost Ignorant Of The Art Of Music, One Of The Most Elevating, Innocent And Refining Of Human Tastes, Whose Influence On The Habits And Morals Of A People Is Of The Most Beneficial Tendency.

Ignorance And Superstition Ever Bear A Close And Mathematical Relation To Each Other.

Much Was Said And Written, At The Time, Concerning The Policy Of Adding The Vast Regions Of Louisiana, To The Already Immense, And But Half-tenanted Territories Of The United-states.

As Reason And Revelation Both Tell Us That This State Of Being Is But A Preparation For Another Of A Still Higher And More Spiritual Order, All The Interests Of Life Are Of Comparatively Little Importance, When Put In The Balance Against The Future.