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I Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.

Action Indeed Is The Sole Medium Of Expression For Ethics.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

We Are Learning That A Standard Of Social Ethics Is Not Attained By Travelling A Sequestered Byway, But By Mixing On The Thronged And Common Road Where All Must Turn Out For One Another, And At Least See The Size Of One Another's Burdens.

Life Cannot Be Administered By Definite Rules And Regulations; That Wisdom To Deal With A Man's Difficulties Comes Only Through Some Knowledge Of His Life And Habits As A Whole.