How Utterly Are One's Best Thoughts Invaded

Massachusetts Women As A Rule Adhere Too Strongly To Old-time Conventions.

We Will Not Have Great Questions Decided By Irrelevant Agencies, Our Husbands Will Not Come To Us, Reeking With Carnage, For Caresses And Applause. Our Sons Shall Not Be Taken From Us To Unlearn All That We Have Been Able To Teach Them Of Charity, Mercy, And Patience. We, The Women Of One Country, Will Be Too Tender Of Those Of Another Country To Allow Our Sons To Be Trained To Injure Theirs.

Don't You Think That The Best Things Are Already In View?

Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord: / He Is Trampling Out The Vintage Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored.

In The Nature Of Things, I Must Soon Lose Sight Of This Sense Of Constant Metamorphosis Whose Limits Bound Our Human Life.