The Cheap Drama Brings Cause And Effect,

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

Unless Our Conception Of Patriotism Is Progressive, It Cannot Hope To Embody The Real Affection And The Real Interest Of The Nation.

We Forget That The Accumulation Of Knowledge And The Holding Of Convictions Must Finally Result In The Application Of That Knowledge And Those Convictions To Life Itself.

It Is Easy To Become The Dupe Of A Deferred Purpose, Of The Promise The Future Can Never Keep, And I Had Fallen Into The Meanest Type Of Self-deception In Making Myself Believe That All This Was In Preparation For Great Things To Come.

The Popular Books Are The Novels, Dealing With Life Under All Possible Conditions, And They Are Widely Read Not Only Because They Are Entertaining, But Also Because They In A Measure Satisfy An Unformulated Belief That To See Farther, To Know All Sorts Of Men, In An Indefinite Way, Is A Preparation For Better Social Adjustment--for The Remedying Of Social Ills.