It is the privileged abuse of old age--the hackneyed allegation of a thousand centuries--the damning _crime_ to which all men have been subjected.

I leave it to metaphysicians to determine the precise moment when wisdom and experience leap into existence, when, for the first time, the mind distinguishes truth from error, selfishness from patriotism, and passion from reason.

It is sufficient for me that I am understood." This was Garrison's first experience with "gentlemen of property and standing" in Boston.

It was not his last, as future chapters will abundantly show..