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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Francis Wright
Action
Belief
Actions
Consequences
First
Force
Judgment
Religious
Right
Sensations
Wrong
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
Francis Wright
Change
World
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Francis Wright
Nature
Time
Facts
Meaning
Observation
Words
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Francis Wright
Equality
Consideration
Cooperation
Labor
Liberty
May
Will