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What After All, Has Maintained The Human Race On This Old Globe Despite All The Calamities Of Nature And All The Tragic Failings Of Mankind, If Not Faith In New Possibilities, And Courage To Advocate Them. Doubtless Many Times These New Possibilities Were Declared By A Man Who, Quite Unconscious Of Courage, Bore The "sense Of Being An Exile, A Condemned Criminal, A Fugitive From Mankind." Did Every One So Feel Who, In Order To Travel On His Own Proper Path Had Been Obliged To Leave The Traditional Highway?

A Long-established Occupation May Form The Very Foundations Of The Moral Life, That The Art With Which A Man Has Solaced His Toil May Be The Salvation Of His Uncertain Temperament.

A Very Little Familiarity With The Poor Districts Of Any City Is Sufficient To Show How Primitive And Genuine Are The Neighborly Relations.

Perhaps I May Record Here My Protest Against The Efforts, So Often Made, To Shield Children And Young People From All That Has To Do With Death And Sorrow, To Give Them A Good Time At All Hazards On The Assumption That The Ills Of Life Will Come Soon Enough. Young People Themselves Often Resent This Attitude On The Part Of Their Elders; They Feel Set Aside And Belittled As If They Were Denied The Common Human Experiences.

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