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Perhaps the simplest point of all is that the text insists that whatever the outcome , the route must lead through multiple possibilities - - that a good question requires different answers , and indeed , those answers reveal the openness of inquiry . Dissimulating the real source of his power - - I mean his superiority to his surroundings - - he allowed it to be believed , in order to satisfy the aspirations of the times - - aspirations , moreover , which he fully shared - - that a revelation from on high had disclosed to him the secrets and the workings of hearts . It looks like an ordinary mirror most of the time , but when it 's activated , an ethereal face appears on its surface , and it makes timely pronouncements - - that a car has arrived in your driveway , for example , or that the Jacuzzi is warm - - in the voice of a snooty English butler . " In both eras expectations ran high : many then felt about steam , electricity and the internal combustion engine the way many now feel about microcircuitry - - that a new world was imminent . Also , by a new and startling fact – which I found Mr. Halifax trying to impress upon a few of them , gathered under the great yew-tree in the church-yard – that a man 's vote ought to be the expression of his own conscientious opinion ; and that for him to sell it was scarsely less vile than to traffic in the liberty of his son or the honor of his daughter . So it was , early in 1839 - - in a place called Mendeland ( in the area that is known today as Sierra Leone ) - - that a group of Mende Africans were kidnapped and transported to the African slave port of Lomboko .