You know Dwight, that I am not one who blames institutions for the failures of individuals. I am living proof, that through hard work one can self educate and break the bonds of poverty.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
