He Who By An Exertion Of Mind

No Theory Is Too False, No Fable Too Absurd, No Superstition Too Degrading For Acceptance When It Has Become Embedded In Common Belief. Men Will Submit Themselves To Torture And To Death, Mothers Will Immolate [burn] Their Children At The Bidding Of Beliefs They Thus Accept.

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.

My Primary Object Is To Defend And Advance A Principle In Which I See The Only Possible Relief From Much That Enthralls And Degrades And Distorts, Turning Light To Darkness And Good To Evil, Rather Than To Gage A Philosopher Or Weigh A Philosophy. Yet The Examination I Propose Must Lead To A Decisive Judgment Upon Both.

To Prevent Government From Becoming Corrupt And Tyrannous, Its Organization And Methods Should Be As Simple As Possible, Its Functions Be Restricted To Those Necessary To The Common Welfare, And In All Its Parts It Should Be Kept As Close To The People And As Directly Within Their Control As May Be.

How Many Men Are There Who Fairly Earn A Million Dollars?