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It Is A Besetting Vice Of Democracies To Substitute Public Opinion For Law. This Is The Usual Form In Which Masses Of Men Exhibit Their Tyranny.

The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity.

The Disposition Of All Power Is To Abuses, Nor Does It At All Mend The Matter That Its Possessors Are A Majority.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

As Reason And Revelation Both Tell Us That This State Of Being Is But A Preparation For Another Of A Still Higher And More Spiritual Order, All The Interests Of Life Are Of Comparatively Little Importance, When Put In The Balance Against The Future.