I Do Not See Why We Should

And Now I'm Old And Going--i'm Sure I Can't Tell Where; One Comfort Is, This World's So Hard, I Can't Be Worse Off There

In The Light Of Fuller Day, Of Purer Science, Holier Laws.

I Hope That My Children, At Least, If Not I Myself, Will See The Day When Ignorance Of The Primary Laws And Facts Of Science Will Be Looked Upon As A Defect Only Second To Ignorance Of The Primary Laws Of Religion And Morality.

These Glorious Things-words-are Man's Right Alone...without Words We Should Know No More Of Each Other's Hearts And Thoughts Than The Dog Knows Of His Fellow Dog....for, If You Will Consider, You Always Think To Yourself In Words, Though You Do Not Speak Them Aloud; And Without Them All Our Thoughts Would Be Mere Blind Longings, Feelings Which We Could Not Understand Ourselves.

I Go At What I Have To Do As If There Were Nothing Else In The World For Me To Do.