The value of a work is not so much in what the author says, as in the intellective power of the reader, whose capacity brings out, according to his strength of reflection, the hidden truths that sleep inside, being the reading of the works, simply the blows that awaken the sleeping flame of our INTERNAL BEING. Thus, the value of a writing depends rather on the Kindness of the readers into whose hands it comes.
The first edition of this...