What We Do Modifies Us More Than

It Is Dull Enough To Confuse The Eye In Following, Pronounced Enough To Constantly Irritate And Provoke Study, And When You Follow The Lame Uncertain Curves For A Little Distance They Suddenly Commit Suicide—plunge Off At Outrageous Angles, Destroy Themselves In Unheard Of Contradictions.

And Woman Should Stand Beside Man As The Comrade Of His Soul, Not The Servant Of His Body.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

Grateful Return For Happiness Conferred Is Not The Method Of Exchange In A Partnership. The Comfort A Man Takes With His Wife Is Not In The Nature Of A Business Partnership, Nor Are Her Frugality And Industry.