Man awoke to the inestimable value of exactness.

From scientists proper, the spirit filtered down through every stratum of education, till to-day the average man is born exact to a degree which his forefathers never dreamed of becoming.

To-day, as a rule, the more intelligent the individual, the more truthful he is, because the more innately exact in thought, and thence in word and action.

With us, to lie is a sign of a want of cleverness, not of an excess of it.
The second cause, the extension of trade, has inculcated the same regard for veracity through the pocket.

For with the increase of business transactions in both time and space, the telling of the truth has become a financial necessity.