Mr.Martineau speculates as freely as ever Dr.Channing did, and Mr.Bright is as independent as Mr.Seward.
Sir,--said he,--it is n't what a man thinks or says; but when and where and to whom he thinks and says it.

A man with a flint and steel striking sparks over a wet blanket is one thing, and striking them over a tinder-box is another.

The free Englishman is born under protest; he lives and dies under protest,--a tolerated, but not a welcome fact.

Is not freethinker a term of reproach in England?
The same idea in the soul of an Englishman who struggled up to it and still holds it antagonistically, and in the soul of an American to whom it is congenital and spontaneous, and often unrecognized, except as an element blended with all his thoughts, a natural movement, like the drawing of his breath or the beating of his heart, is a very different thing.

You may teach a quadruped to walk on his hind legs, but he is always wanting to be on all fours.