Did it not have once a minority?
was it not once a New Thought?
Is not a man's thought to-day as potent, holy, and near the right as was his great-grandfather's thought which was born in a like manner, of the brain of a man, in a modern time?
I will think freely and according to reason.

When it seems wise to tell my mind I will speak; and with judgment I will write down my thought; and fear no man's censure.
Knowledge! I was a poor boy, and I strove for learning, strove hard, and found it worth the striving.

I know the hunger, and I know the rage when one asks for knowledge and asks in vain.

Is it not a shameful thing that happy men, lodged warm and clear in the Interpreter's house, should hear the groping in the dark without, know that their fellows are searching, in pain and with shortness of breath, for the key which let the fortunate in, and make no stir to aid those luckless ones?
Give of your abundance, or your abundance will decay in your hands and turn to that which shall cause you shuddering! His words went on, magnetic as the man.

He spoke for an hour, coming at the last to a consideration of those particular questions which hung in Virginian air.