Unless Our Conception Of Patriotism Is Progressive,

All Those Hints And Glimpses Of A Larger And More Satisfying Democracy, Which Literature And Our Own Hopes Supply, Have A Tendency To Slip Away From Us And To Leave Us Sadly Unguided And Perplexed When We Attempt To Act Upon Them.

The Classical City Promoted Play With Careful Solicitude, Building The Theater And Stadium As It Built The Market Place And The Temple.

The Very Word Woman In The Writings Of The Church Fathers Stood For The Basest Of Temptations... As Women Were Lowered In The Moral Scale Because Of Their Identification With Her At The Very Bottom Of The Pit, So They Cannot Rise Themselves Save As They Succeed In Lifting Her With Whose Sins They Are Weighed.

As The Acceptance Of Democracy Brings A Certain Life-giving Power, So It Has Its Own Sanctions And Comforts. Perhaps The Most Obvious One Is The Curious Sense Which Comes To Us From Time To Time, That We Belong To The Whole, That A Certain Basic Well Being Can Never Be Taken Away From Us Whatever The Turn Of Fortune.

It Is Dreadful The Way All The Comfortable, Happy People Stay Off To Themselves.