Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 29: March, 1864

The editor occupies a post of in¿uence second to none, and it is a gratifying fact that so many College-bred men are now entering this profession. There is however one drawback in the minds of those not content with Silent in¿uence. Nothing seems more irrecoverably lost than the words of an editor, as they are scattered in the printed sheet over the land. They serve for lighting fires, or for ladies' curl papers, or lie dust-covered and forgotten amongst the lumber of old garrets. Their in¿uence can no more be followed than the waves of a pebble thrown into the sea, and with a consciousness of this it requires a large faith to labor earnestly. The number of editors, moreover. Must from the nature of the case be small.

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