In Matters Pertaining To The Care Of

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.

The Origin Of The Labor Movement Lies In Self-defense.

... The Precedents For Feminine Self-expression Run Back Through All The Ages Since The Art Of Writing Was Invented. ... The Era May Witness The First Female Engineer, Motor Truck Chauffeur, Radio Broadcaster, Head Of An Aviation School, Or Federal Prohibition Officer, But It Has Not Produced The First Thinking, Creative, And Writing Woman By Any Means.

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.

History Has Been Conceived--and With High Justification In The Records--as The Human Struggle For Civilization Against Barbarism In Different Ages And Places, From The Beginning Of Human Societies.