There are no longer even Deists; for the old chimera of a personal, moral God-witness, sanction, and judge,--is virtually extinct; and yet hardly a word is said, or a line written, or a gesture made, in public or private life, which does not ever affirm that chimera.

This may have its uses perchance, but it is nevertheless despicable.

Slip forth from the common herd, my son, think for yourself, and write your own catechism upon a virgin page.
"As for myself, my life has been a failure, because I was born many years too soon.

As yet the earth and the heavens were heaped up and cumbered with ruins, and people did not see.

Science, moreover, was relatively still in its infancy.