Thus a number of dead persons are encouraging us in libraries, and a number of living are conversing and diffusing zeal among us at the same time.

This, however, is not true in any free and enlightened country, with respect to the propagation of evil.

The living find no permanent encouragement, and the dead speak to no purpose in such a case.
This account of the manner in which light and information proceed in a free country, furnishes us with some valuable knowledge.

It shows us, first, the great importance of education; for all they who can read may become enlightened.

They may gain as much from the dead as from the living.