The Wise Skeptic Does Not Teach Doubt

Night-dreams Trace On Memory's Wall Shadows Of The Thoughts Of Day, And Thy Fortunes, As They Fall, The Bias Of The Will Betray.

Shall We Then Judge A Country By The Majority, Or By The Minority? By The Minority, Surely.

Things Refuse To Be Mismanaged For Long.

All Inquiry Into Antiquity, All Curiosity Respecting The Pyramids, The Excavated Cities, Stonehenge, The Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is The Desire To Do Away This Wild, Savage, And Preposterous There And Then, And Introduce In Its Place The Here And Now.

So Shall We Come To Look At The World With New Eyes.