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O ye that have minds to know! Raise up your suppliant hands to the heaven of the one God, and humble yourselves and be lowly before Him, and thank Him for this supreme endowment, and implore Him to succor us until, in this present age, godlike impulses may radiate from the conscience of mankind, and this divinely kindled fire which has been entrusted to the human heart may never die away.
Consider carefully: all these highly varied phenomena,
these concepts, this knowledge, these technical
procedures and philosophical systems, these sciences,
arts, industries and inventions--all are emanations of
the human mind. Whatever people has ventured
deeper into this shoreless sea, has come to excel the
rest. The happiness and pride of a nation consist in
this, that it should shine out like the sun in the high
heaven of knowledge. "Shall they who have knowledge
and they who have it not, be treated alike?" (3) And
the honor and distinction of the individual consist in
this, that he among all the world's multitudes should
become a source of social good. Is any larger bounty