Sociability Is As Much A Law Of

My Brother Could Not Write About Trifles. Even In Society He Became Animated Only When Some Serious Discussion Was Engaged In, And He Complained Of Feeling 'a Dull Pain In The Brain'--a Physical Pain, As He Used To Say--when He Was With People Who Cared Only For Small Talk.

Educated Men - "civilized," As Fourier Used To Say With Disdain - Tremble At The Idea That Society Might Some Day Be Without Judges, Police, Or Gaolers.

While In The Course Of Ages The Nucleus Of Social Custom Inscribed In Law Has Been Subjected To But Slight And Gradual Modifications, The Other Portion Has Been Largely Developed In Directions Indicated By The Interests Of The Dominant Classes, And To The Injury Of The Classes They Oppress.

Sometimes He Would Advise Me To Read Poetry, And Would Send Me In His Letters Quantities Of Verses And Whole Poems, Which He Wrote From Memory. 'read Poetry,' He Wrote: 'poetry Makes Men Better.' How Often, In My Later Life, I Realized The Truth Of This Remark Of His! Read Poetry: It Makes Men Better.

Competition Is The Law Of The Jungle, But Cooperation Is The Law Of Civilization