We can find it nowhere so clearly as in these old journals, this collection of local historical material that makes such drudgy work to collect and catalog.

[…] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!

O pardon me, my liege, but for my teares, The moiſt impediments vnto my ſpeech, I had foreſtald this deere and deep rebuke, […]

Don’t squander the gold of your days … trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age.