The last new truth is always first perceived by the small minority of superior minds and souls.

How indeed could it be otherwise, so long as truth like light always shines down from above?
"Have you communicated this view to your brother and sister ?" asked Dulcibel.
"I have talked with them for a whole evening, but I do think Sister Ann is possessed too," replied Joseph Putnam.

"She fairly raves sometimes.
You know how bitterly she feels about that old church quarrel, when a small minority of the Parish succeeded in preventing the permanent settlement of her sister's husband as minister.

She seems to have the idea that all that party are emissaries of Satan.

I do not wonder her little girl should be so nervous and excitable, being the child of such a nervous, high-strung woman.