Eugene V. Debs Has Always Been One

When Every Event Was A Miracle, When There Was No Order Or System Or Law, There Was No Occasion For Studying Any Subject, Or Being Interested In Anything Excepting A Religion Which Took Care Of The Soul. As Man Doubted The Primitive Conceptions About Religion, And No Longer Accepted The Literal, Miraculous Teachings Of Ancient Books, He Set Himself To Understand Nature.

The Really Intelligent Are As Abnormal As The Defective. The Great Masses Of Men Are Rather Mediocre, And Those Above And Below Are Exceptions.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It.

The Consideration And Kindness Shown By Unfortunates To Each Other Are Surprising To Those Who Have No Experience With This Class Of Men. Often To Find Real Sympathy You Must Go To Those Who Know What Misery Means.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.