If Coming Events Are Said To Cast

Everything Lives And Perishes Through Magnetism; One Thing Affects Another One, Even At Great Distances, And Its "congenitals" May Be Influenced To Health And Disease By The Power Of This Sympathy, At Any Time, And Notwithstanding The Intervening Space.

The Appearance And Disappearance Of The Universe Are Pictured As An Outbreathing And Inbreathing Of The" Great Breath," Which Is Eternal, And Which, Being Motion, Is One Of The Three Aspects Of The Absolute - Abstract Space And Duration Being The Other Two.

The Possible Truths, Hazily Perceived In The World Of Abstraction, Like Those Inferred From Observation And Experiment In The World Of Matter, Are Forced Upon The Profane Multitudes, Too Busy To Think For Themselves, Under The Form Of Divine Revelation And Scientific Authority. But The Same Question Stands Open From The Days Of Socrates And Pilate Down To Our Own Age Of Wholesale Negation: Is There Such A Thing As Absolute Truth In The Hands Of Any One Party Or Man?

Is The Scraping Off Of A Barnacle The Destruction Of A Ship?

Public Opinion, This Invisible, Intangible, Omnipresent, Despotic Tyrant; This Thousand-headed Hydra - The More Dangerous For Being Composed Of Individual Mediocrities...