TRUE CIVILISATION PRINCIPLES, PROPOSITIONS & DISCUSSIONS FOR LAND & FREEDOM - By JOSIAH WARREN (1863)

The present condition of our country, and of many
other parts of the world, calls out and places before us, as
in a panorama, whatever there is of thought; whatever
there has been of progress or retrogression, and displays
to us at a simple glance, as it were, the present state of
civilization in so vivid a manner that we are enabled to
weigh and estimate what we have and what we need with
a degree of certainty that, in a state of repose, no one's
lifetime might enable him to measure; and which may
reasonably inspire even the humble with a boldness
suited to the time, and with a hope that discoveries
indispensable to true civilization, that could scarcely
gain a single ear while the adversities of life could be
borne, may now receive some attention where all
confidence in the tried is lost.