The Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., and the University of Texas at Austin both honor him to this day with their collections of his nature specimens and writings. We mentioned those aphorisms that bring Poor Richard's Almanack to mind. Oh, yes, holy free thought. I owe no man anything beyond common civility. To be dissolved and flow back to the constituent elements is, in my philosophy, perfectly natural and to my mind reconcilable.
Ignorance is such a terrible, stubborn, throat-cutting thing.
How little people see of the things they are daily trampling over. As to politics and religion, I know nothing about either. I am not yet through with my investigations and experimentations with natural things, and I have had no time to spend with the so-called supernatural. The University of Texas at Austin published her book based on the thesis in 1965. That led me to go to the Center for American History at UT-Austin, which had the papers.