I'm Sure I Never Used To Be

To-day There Is Hardly A Woman Of Intelligence In All America ... Who Is Not Definitely And Actively Concerned In Some Social Interest, Who Does Not Recognize Some Duty Besides Those Incident To Her Own Blood Relationship.

Concepts Antedate Facts.

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

A Man's Honor Always Seems To Want To Kill A Woman To Satisfy It.

When All Usefulness Is Over, When One Is Assured Of An Unavoidable And Imminent Death, It Is The Simplest Of Human Rights To Choose A Quick And Easy Death In Place Of A Slow And Horrible One.