Excerpt from The Philosophy of Reform: In Which Are Exhibited the Design, Principle and Plan of God, for the Full Development of Man, as a Social, Civil, Intellectual and Moral Being; Thereby Elevating Him in the Scale of Being to the Position He Was Created to Occupy
An independent thinker is usually looked upon with suspicion, and one who invents some new thing is regarded a dangerous man. This may be owing to the aversion of the human mind to change, and to its respect and veneration for the past. Sudden and violent encroachments on established systems are feared more than those systems themselves, that are seen to be slowly working the destruction of what they were formed to destroy. Still, immobility is no less dangerous and destructive than rashness. He who travels in a circle, though his path be well defined, has no more hope of improvement than fear of degeneracy.
The wise man, therefore, while he acknowledges true genius and hails with delight whatever may be a real improvement, or true advancement in any department of life, will not receive, with enthusiasm, whatever is new, because it is new, neither will he reject it for the same reason. But all men are not wise men.
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