Civilization Is So Hard On The Body

All Possible Truth Is Practical. To Ask Whether Our Conception Of Chair Or Table Corresponds To The Real Chair Or Table Apart From The Uses To Which They May Be Put, Is As Utterly Meaningless And Vain As To Inquire Whether A Musical Tone Is Red Or Yellow. No Other Conceivable Relation Than This Between Ideas And Things Can Exist. The Unknowable Is What I Cannot React Upon. The Active Part Of Our Nature Is Not Only An Essential Part Of Cognition Itself, But It Always Has A Voice In Determining What Shall Be Believed And What Rejected.

Normal Children Often Pass Through Stages Of Passionate Cruelty, Laziness, Lying And Thievery.

Education Has Now Become The Chief Problem Of The World, Its One Holy Cause. The Nations That See This Will Survive, And Those That Fail To Do So Will Slowly Perish. . . . There Must Be Re-education Of The Will And Of The Heart As Well As Of The Intellect; And The Ideals Of Service Must Supplant Those Of Selfishness And Greed.

Civilization Is So Hard On The Body That Some Have Called It A Disease, Despite The Arts That Keep Puny Bodies Alive To A Greater Average Age, And Our Greater Protection From Contagious And Germ Diseases.

Abundance And Vigor Of Automatic Movements Are Desirable, And Even A Considerable Degree Of Restlessness Is A Good Sign In Young Children.