Ask With Urgency And Passion.

He [a. J. Balfour] Was Eminently One Of The Cole Porter School Of Famous Men, Who Only Fell To Rise Again. Picking Himself Up And Brushing Himself Down Became A Minor Art Form, Ruefully Admired By His Contemporaries.

And Realize That Life Is The Best Thing Ever, And That You Have No Business Taking It For Granted. Care So Deeply About Its Goodness That You Want To Spread It Around. Take Money...and Give It To Charity. Work In A Soup Kitchen. Be A Big Brother Or Sister...you Want To Do Well, But If You Do Not Do Good Too, Then Doing Well Will Never Be Enough.

Kant, As We All Know, Compared Moral Law To The Starry Heavens, And Found Them Both Sublime. On The Naturalistic Hypothesis We Should Rather Compare It To The Protective Blotches On A Beetle's Back, And Find Them Both Ingenious.

But Science Is The Great Instrument Of Social Change, All The Greater Because Its Object Is Not Change But Knowledge, And Its Silent Appropriation Of This Dominant Function, Amid The Din Of Political And Religious Strife, Is The Most Vital Of All The Revolutions Which Have Marked The Development Of Modern Civilisation.

Though The Parallel Is Not Complete, It Is Safe To Say That Science Will Never Touch Them Unaided By Its Practical Applications. Its Wonders May Be Catalogued For Purposes Of Education, They May Be Illustrated By Arresting Experiments, By Numbers And Magnitudes Which Startle Or Fatigue The Imagination But They Will Form No Familiar Portion Of The Intellectual Furniture Of Ordinary Men Unless They Be Connected, However Remotely, With The Conduct Of Ordinary Life.