The Nails From A Suicide's Coffin, And

The Conscience Of The World Is So Guilty That It Always Assumes That People Who Investigate Heresies Must Be Heretics; Just As If A Doctor Who Studies Leprosy Must Be A Leper. Indeed, It Is Only Recently That Science Has Been Allowed To Study Anything Without Reproach.

They Look For A Victim To Chivy, And Howl Him Down, And Finally Lynch Him In A Sheer Storm Of Sexual Frenzy Which They Honestly Imagine To Be Moral Indignation, Patriotic Passion Or Some Equally Allowable Emotion, It May Be An Innocent Negro, A Jew Like Leo Frank, A Harmless Half-witted German; A Christ-like Idealist Of The Type Of Debs, An Enthusiastic Reformer Like Emma Goldman.

Acts Which Are Essentially Dishonourable Must Not Be Done; They Would Be Justified Only By Calm Contemplation Of Their Correctness In Abstract Cases.

I Was Not Content To Believe In A Personal Devil And Serve Him, In The Ordinary Sense Of The Word. I Wanted To Get Hold Of Him Personally And Become His Chief Of Staff.

The Average Man Cannot Believe That An Artist May Be As Serious And Highminded An Observer Of Life As The Professed Man Of Science.