The Most Human Thing We Can Do

Different Strokes For Different Folks.

The Lowest Standards Of Ethics Of Which A Right-thinking Man Can Possibly Conceive Is Taught To The Common Soldier Whose Trade Is To Shoot His Fellow Men. In Youth He May Have Learned The Command, 'thou Shalt Not Kill,' But The Ruler Takes The Boy Just As He Enters Manhood And Teaches Him That His Highest Duty Is To Shoot A Bullet Through His Neighbor's Heart - And This, Unmoved By Passion Or Feeling Or Hatred, And Without The Least Regard To Right Or Wrong, But Simply Because His Ruler Gives The Word.

I Feel As I Always Have, That The Earth Is The Home And The Only Home Of Man, And I Am Convinced That Whatever He Is To Get Out Of His Existence He Must Get While He Is Here.

The Audience That Storms The Box-office Of The Theater To Gain Entrance To A Sensational Show Is Small And Sleepy Compared With The Throng That Crashes The Courthouse Door When Something Concerning Real Life And Death Is To Be Laid Bare To The Public.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.