It May Never Come, But I Fancy

Criminal Cases Receive The Attention Of The Press. The Cruel And Disagreeable Things Of Life Are More Apt To Get The Newspaper Space Than The Pleasant Ones. It Must Be That Most People Enjoy Hearing Of And Reading About The Troubles Of Others. Perhaps Men Unconsciously Feel That They Rise In The General Level As Others Go Down.

The Nation That Would To-day Disarm Its Soldiers And Turn Its People To The Paths Of Peace Would Accomplish More To Its Building Up Than By All The War Taxes Wrong From Its Hostile And Unwilling Serfs

A Jury Is More Apt To Be Unbiased And Independent Than A Court, But They Very Seldom Stand Up Against Strong Public Clamor. Judges Naturally Believe The Defendant Is Guilty.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

Every Thought Of Pity Is Like The Balm Of Gilead To Our Souls.