I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

My basic ideas have not changed. I see no reason to change them.

And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.

We all see different versions of the same thing. I have written the truest book I was capable of creating. It's the way I've always made sense of the world and my life.

It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.

all the things I’d done in my life, of all the versions of myself I’d lived out, there was one that had never changed: I was a writer.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

I still carry with me the same themes as always — I'm still compelled to present mystic ideas...

For myself, I am totally convinced that these are the true happenings of our time; that, even as I write, these events are unfolding. As they further unfold, I believe they will prove to your fullest satisfaction that this is the true condition of our present time in history. p. 1

In re-reading these pages I am now more than ever convinced that I have struck the right chord of condemnation, and advocated the best virtues and most valuable characteristics of women. I neither soften nor retract a line of what I have said.

My views as to the reforms in the public service, which public safety and economy alike urgently call for, are, I think, well known to you; they have undergone no change, save that I hold them more strongly than ever. You are also, I imagine, not unaware of my desire to meet with all legitimate sympathy and good will the newly-formed but very articulate and well-defined demands of the labouring classes.

Yet I did love thee to the last,
As ferverently as thou,
Who didst not change through all the past,
And canst not alter now.

Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think