Excerpt from The Water Witch; Or the Skimmer of the Seas, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale

Christendom is gradually extricating itself from the ignorance, ferocity, and crimes of the middle ages. It is no longer subject of boast that the hand which wields the sword never held a pen, and men have long since ceased to be ashamed of knowledge. The multiplied means of imparting principles and facts, and a more general diffusion of intelligence, have conduced to establish sounder ethics and juster practices throughout the whole civilized world. Thus he who admits the conviction, as hope declines with his years, that man deteriorates, is probably as far from truth as the visionary who sees the dawn of a golden age in the commencement of the nineteenth century.

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