“The laboring people a few generations ago were not very intellectual. There were no schoolhouses, no teachers except the church, and the church taught obedience and faith -- told the poor people that although they had a hard time here, working for nothing, they would be paid in Paradise with a large interest. Now the working people are more intelligent -- they are better educated -- they read and write. In order to carry on the works of the present, many of them are machinists of the highest order. They must be reasoners.”