But We Were Made To Believe And

In New York City, Everyone Is An Exile, None More So Than The Americans.

No Matter What The Belief, If It Had Modestly Said, 'this Is Our Best Thought, Go On, Think Farther!' Then We Could Have Smoothly Outgrown Our Early Errors And Long Since Have Developed A Religion Such As Would Have Kept Pace With An Advancing World. But We Were Made To Believe And Not Allowed To Think. We Were Told To Obey, Rather Than To Experiment And Investigate.

Fine Blunderers In Ethics We Are, So Generally Conveying To Children The Basic Impression That Pleasantness Must Be Wrong, And Right Doing Unpleasant!

To Speak Broadly, The Troubles Of Life As We Find Them Are Mainly Traceable To The Heart Or The Purse.

At Any Given Period In History The Ideas Of The Common Mind Are Found To Antedate The Facts. The Facts Of The Twentieth Century Are Approached With The Ideas, Feelings, Prejudices Of The Tenth.