I'm Sure I Never Used To Be

We Have Built Into The Constitution Of The Human Race The Habit And Desire Of Taking, As Divorced From Its Natural Precursor And Concomitant Of Making.

[warfare Is] Maleness In Its Absurdest Extremes. Here Is To Be Studied The Whole Gamut Of Basic Masculinity, From The Initial Instinct Of Combat, Through Every Form Of Glorious Ostentation, With The Loudest Accompaniment Of Noise.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

There Should Be An End To The Bitterness Of Feeling Which Has Arisen Between The Sexes In This Century.

If Fifty Men Did All The Work, / And Gave The Price To Five, / And Let Those Five Make All The Rules - / You'd Say The Fifty Men Were Fools, / Unfit To Be Alive.