I Have No Sympathy For

[i] Wish That The Land-tax Went A Little More According To Situation Than It Does. 'tis Really Ridiculous, How One Has To Pay Five Times As Much As Another, Without Any Reason That Ever I Heard Tell.

Who Is Apt, On Occasion, To Assign A Multitude Of Reasons When One Will Do? This Is A Sure Sign Of Weakness In Argument.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.

The Lesson Taught Us By These Kindly Commentators On My Present Experience Is That Dogmatic Faith Compels The Best Minds And Hearts To Narrowness And Insolence.

As The Astronomer Rejoices In New Knowledge Which Compels Him To Give Up The Dignity Of Our Globe As The Centre, The Pride, And Even The Final Cause Of The Universe, So Do Those Who Have Escaped From The Christian Mythology Enjoy Their Release From The Superstition Which Fails To Make Them Happy, Fails To Make Them Good, Fails To Make Them Wise, And Has Become As Great An Obstacle In The Way Of Progress As The Prior Mythologies Which It Took The Place Of Two Thousand Years Ago.