Still contemporary after all these years …

…. A Monument to the Mother Tongue | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of political zealots; of men, who, being numbered, they know not how nor why, in any of the parties that divide a state, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favour those whom they profess to follow.