The Human Mind Is Indeed A Cave

Simplicity Is A Pleasant Thing In Children, Or At Any Age, But It Is Not Necessarily Admirable, Nor Is Affectation Altogether A Thing Of Evil. To Be Normal, To Be At Home In The World, With A Prospect Of Power, Usefulness, Or Success, The Person Must Have That Imaginative Insight Into Other Minds That Underlies Tact And Savoir-faire, Morality And Beneficence. This Insight Involves Sophistication, Some Understanding And Sharing Of The Clandestine Impulses Of Human Nature. A Simplicity That Is Merely The Lack Of This Insight Indicates A Sort Of Defect.

There Is Nothing Less To Our Credit Than Our Neglect Of The Foreigner And His Children, Unless It Be The Arrogance Most Of Us Betray When We Set Out To "americanize" Him.

Institutions - Government, Churches, Industries, And The Like - Have Properly No Other Function Than To Contribute To Human Freedom; And In So Far As They Fail, On The Whole, To Perform This Function, They Are Wrong And Need Reconstruction.

The Idea Of Freedom Is Quite In Accord With A General, Though Vague, Sentiment Among Us; It Is An Idea Of Fair Play, Of Giving Everyone A Chance; And Nothing Arouses More General And Active Indignation Among Our People Than The Belief That Some One Or Some Class Is Not Getting A Fair Chance.

We Are Born To Action And Whatever Is Capable Of Suggesting And Guiding Action Has Power Over Us From The First.