4/11 The robber is often found in the same camp, and fighting under the same banner, with the soldier of Freedom. It is not strange, therefore, that the _true_ sons of Liberty should sometimes be associated with its _bastard_ children of the shackle and the whip. Not that I consider it of small importance to you. On the contrary, I deem that science the _most important of all others that have ever occupied the attention of men_. Its influence extends to almost every object around you. |