Hither, ye blind, from your futile banding; know the rights and the rights are won; Wrong shall die with the understanding — one truth clear, and the work is done.. Nature is higher than Progress or Knowledge, whose need is ninety enslaved for ten; My word shall stand against mart and college; The Plane belongs to its living men.

— JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY, Liberty Enlightening the World, Life and Poems, p. 420.