Democracy Cannot Sustain Itself Amid A High

Every Great Creative Idea, Formulated As A Philosophy, Has A Social Setting - In Time, In A Geographical Location, In A Political Economy, In A Matrix Of Interests And Knowledge. It Is Not A Free-swinging Phenomenon Like A Balloon Without Moorings. It Is Not Produced In A Vacuum And, Being Creative, It Does Not Work In A Vacuum. Nurtured On Things Experienced And Things Known, It Reaches Out Toward The Unknown Like A Flower On A Stalk Growing Out Of The Soil.

To Ignore [the] Great Social Facts -- Political Facts, If You Please -- And Over-emphasize The Old Moral Responsibility Of The 'domestic' Mother Is A Hollow Mockery And Betrays A Hopeless Ignorance Of Industrial And Urban Conditions In The Twentieth Century. ... Everything That Counts In The Common Life Is Political.

Certainly, Travel Is More Than The Seeing Of Sights; It Is A Change That Goes On, Deep And Permanent, In The Ideas Of Living.

Democracy Cannot Sustain Itself Amid A High Degree Of Violence.

The Woman's Bill Of Rights Is, Unhappily, Long Overdue. It Should Have Run Along With The Rights Of Man In The Eighteenth Century. Its Drag As To Time Of Official Proclamation Is A Drag As To Social Vision. And Even If Equal Rights Were Now Written Into The Law Of Our Land, It Would Be So Inadequate Today As A Means To Food, Clothing And Shelter For Woman At Large That What They Would Still Be Enjoying Would Be Equality In Disaster Rather Than In Realistic Privilege.