The World Cannot Live At The Level

Yet Perhaps No Sacrifice Is Wholly Useless Which Proves There Are Men Who Prefer Honour To Life.

In Primitive Society, Where Uniformity Of Occupation Is The Rule, And The Distribution Of The Community Into Various Classes Of Workers Has Hardly Begun, Every Man Is More Or Less His Own Magician; He Practices Charms And Incantations For His Own Good And The Injury Of His Enemies.

I Am A Plain Practical Man, Not One Of Your Theorists And Splitters Of Hairs And Choppers Of Logic.

The Abundance, The Solidity, And The Splendor Of The Results Already Achieved By Science Are Well Fitted To Inspire Us With A Cheerful Confidence In The Soundness Of Its Method.

The Athenians Regularly Maintained A Number Of Degraded And Useless Beings At The Public Expense; And When Any Calamity, Such As Plague, Drought, Or Famine, Befell The City, They Sacrificed Two Of These Outcast Scapegoats.