Reading The Morning Newspaper Is

To Him Who Looks Upon The World Rationally, The World In Its Turn Presents A Rational Aspect. The Relation Is Mutual.

To Be Independent Of Public Opinion Is The First Formal Condition Of Achieving Anything Great Or Rational Whether In Life Or In Science. Great Achievement Is Assured, However, Of Subsequent Recognition And Grateful Acceptance By Public Opinion, Which In Due Course Will Make It One Of Its Own Prejudices

...if The Fear Of Falling Into Error Is The Source Of A Mistrust In Science, Which In The Absence Of Any Such Misgivings Gets On With The Work Itself And Actually Does Know, It Is Difficult To See Why, Conversely, A Mistrust Should Not Be Placed In This Mistrust, And Why We Should Not Be Concerned That This Fear Of Erring Is Itself The Very Error.

In History An Additional Result Is Commonly Produced By Human Actions Beyond That Which They Aim At And Obtain -- That Which They Immediately Recognize And Desire. They Gratify Their Own Interest; But Something Further Is Thereby Accomplished, Latent In The Actions In Question, Though Not Present To Their Consciousness, And Not Included In Their Design.

Whatever Is Reasonable Is True, And Whatever Is True Is Reasonable