The following is from the pen of the editor of the Ohio Cultivator, Sept'l, 1858:

But we are a deadly foe to sham and pretense, and never go with the multitude just because it is popular to be in the current. From our position we have often seen men who lay claim to some great things, stand on the corners and cry - lo here! or lo there! and modestly ask the world to stop till they have developed their great idea. Well when they came to get the great idea out, it was like a pollywog - all head and shoulders - tapering off to a very insignificant tail, which finally drops off, and the whole thing hops away with a bloonk! I tell you we can't afford to stop our eager battalions to look after tadpole theories. If these men have anything to say worth hearing, let them out with it! and not be putting on mysterious airs and fishing for a big douceur, like certain dark-lantern Professors, to pave the way with gold before they disclose a disclosure. If that is the game, I can only say - "Get out of the way, old Dan Tucker." This kind of learning and science that never discovers its philosopher's stone, until some thrifty fanner has turned it out with his plow, is entirely too slow and dull for this age.