Excerpt from The Irreconcilable Records
We live in the nineteenth century, when science is abroad knocking at every door, not excepting the church door; flashing light into the dark corners of superstition and bigotry, regardless of the hooting of the owls and the screaming of the bats that inhabit them. It is useless to lock and bolt the door; for science carries the club that can demolish every barrier. In vain you hide in the dark; for her lamp makes day of the blackest night. Build to the skies, she will soar and scan the very top stone; dig centre deep, she will dive to the foundation. Heaven is not too high for her fetterless wing, nor the fires of hell hot enough to prevent her most searching examination.
Stimulated by her example, we are no longer content to crawl at a snail's pace, but have put on the "seven-leagued boots," and are striding with the pace of a giant. We have left slavery behind us, with its terrible curses, - old notions of the earth and heavens, which lie like bowlders by the wayside, as we still go marching on.
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