Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

EDUCATION.
"The Sperit is a gwine to lead and to guide us into all
truth, yer know. Now, if grammar is truth, why, the Sperit
will jest lead us into it a kinder nateral like: and if it ain't
truth, it's no use, and I ain't a gwine to bother my brains and
pay my money about it."
Even the editor of their paper, the "Deseret News," denies
all originality of thought. Denying it, of course, he is never
guilty of it in his newspaper.
A great incentive, perhaps the greatest incentive to education, is a cultivated class of females. The natural proclivity
of one sex for the other maintains a constant action, and
induces by rivalry, great efforts at personal improvement.
Men always assimilate with the society kept, as certainly as
those who walk constantly together adopt each other's gait
and carriage. Intellectual female society, the great polisher
of manners; sharpener of wit, purifier of sentiment, and refiner-of expression is, at Salt Lake, entirely unknown. Not
only is it unknown, but despised, and called "Gentilish affectation." To be esteemed by the people, all must be esteemed
by the authorities. To obtain their approval, they must feign
entire inferiority, by simulating entire reverence for them.
This might not be difficult if their minds were cultivated or
their habits even decent. Conversation the most filthy, obscene anecdotes, jests, and allusions form much capital in the
stock of Brigham and Hieber. Indeed I have often heard it
said praisingly of Brigham, that he can "tell the dirtiest story
in the dirtiest way." To stand well with them, all must sink
to the level of their social habits; not to stand well with
them is not to stand well in the estimation of the people, and
that is to be suspected and annoyed.
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