This letter is in regard to the Ceres Plantation House.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” So why are we so intent on eliminating joy from our lives in favor of bah-humbug utilitarian gloom?

Without joy the soul is dead.

Without soul the country is dead.

Without beauty there is no God.

Without God there is no inspiration.

Without inspiration there is only darkness and empty space.

What man deliberately destroys on our Earth is, was and forever shall be impossible for other men to completely, perfectly duplicate in total authenticity, down to the last thumb screw.

Until people today master the art of thinking, minus computers, they are not educated. The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution never heard of a computer, but their words have survived every assault meant to destroy them, because their authors were thinkers.

LC Giles

Vicksburg