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We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

The Essence Of Immorality Is The Tendency To Make An Exception Of Myself.

What Is A Great Man Who Has Made His Mark Upon History? Every Time, If We Think Far Enough, He Is A Man Who Has Looked Through The Confusion Of The Moment And Has Seen The Moral Issue Involved; He Is A Man Who Has Refused To Have His Sense Of Justice Distorted; He Has Listened To His Conscience Until Conscience Becomes A Trumpet Call To Like-minded Men, So That They Gather About Him, And Together, With Mutual Purpose And Mutual Aid, They Make A New Period In History.

A Long-established Occupation May Form The Very Foundations Of The Moral Life, That The Art With Which A Man Has Solaced His Toil May Be The Salvation Of His Uncertain Temperament.

If The Underdog Were Always Right, One Might Quite Easily Try To Defend Him. The Trouble Is That Very Often He Is But Obscurely Right, Sometimes Only Partially Right, And Often Quite Wrong; But Perhaps He Is Never So Altogether Wrong And Pig-headed And Utterly Reprehensible As He Is Represented To Be By Those Who Add The Possession Of Prejudices To The Other Almost Insuperable Difficulties Of Understanding Him.