Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient, obsolete, and pernicious order of life. If free men would not rely on that which has no power and is always fettered — upon external aids— but would trust in that which is always powerful and free — the truth and its expression!
If only men were boldly and clearly to express the truth already manifest to them of the brotherhood of all nations, and the crime of exclusive devotion to one's own people, defunct, false public opinion would slough off of itself like a dried skin, and the new public opinion would stand forth, which is even now but awaiting that dropping off of the old to put forth manifestly and powerfully its demands and establish new forms of existence in conformity with the consciousness of mankind.
