When All Usefulness Is Over, When One

If We Once Admit That Our Life Is Here For The Purpose Of Race-improvement, Then We Question Any Religion Which Does Not Improve The Race, Or The Main Force Of Which Evaporates, As It Were, Directing Our Best Efforts Toward The Sky.... Improvement In The Human Race Is Not Accomplished By Extracting Any Number Of Souls And Placing Them In Heaven, Or Elsewhere. It Must Be Established On Earth, Either Through Achievement In Social Service, Or Through Better Children.

All Social Relations Exist And Grow In The Human Mind. That One Despot Can Rule Over A Million Other Men Rests Absolutely On Their State Of Mind. They Believe That He Does; Let Them Change Their Minds, And He Does Not.

At Any Given Period In History The Ideas Of The Common Mind Are Found To Antedate The Facts. The Facts Of The Twentieth Century Are Approached With The Ideas, Feelings, Prejudices Of The Tenth.

The Children In This Country Are The One Center And Focus Of All Our Thoughts. Every Step Of Our Advance Is Always Considered In Its Effect On Them-on The Race. You See, We Are Mothers, She Repeated, As If In That She Had Said It All.

I Was Climbing Up A Mountain-path With Many Things To Do, Important Business Of My Own, And Other People's Too, When I Ran Against A Prejudice That Quite Cut Off The View.