The Time Has Come When I Am

I Have No Wealthy Or Popular Relations To Recommend Me.

Legislation And Adjudication Must Follow, And Conform To, The Progress Of Society.

We Hope All Danger May Be Overcome; But To Conclude That No Danger May Ever Arise Would Itself Be Extremely Dangerous.

Believing Everybody Is Dangerous, But Believing Nobody Is More Dangerous.

Men Are Not Flattered By Being Shown That There Has Been A Difference Of Purpose Between The Almighty And Them. To Deny It, However, In This Case, Is To Deny That There Is A God Governing The World. It Is A Truth Which I Thought Needed To Be Told; And As Whatever Of Humilation There Is In It, Falls Most Directly On Myself, I Thought Others Might Afford For Me To Tell It.