It Is Told That Buddha, Going Out

To Speak Broadly, The Troubles Of Life As We Find Them Are Mainly Traceable To The Heart Or The Purse.

It Would Have Saved Trouble Had I Remained Perkins From The First, This Changing Of Women's Names Is A Nuisance We Are Now Happily Outgrowing.

The Original Necessity For The Ceaseless Presence Of The Woman To Maintain That Altar Fire - And It Was An Altar Fire In Very Truth At One Period - Has Passed With The Means Of Prompt Ignition; The Matchbox Has Freed The Housewife From That Incessant Service, But The Feeling That Women Should Stay At Home Is With Us Yet.

We Are Pushed Forward By The Social Forces, Reluctant And Stumbling, Our Faces Over Our Shoulders, Clutching At Every Relic Of The Past As We Are Forced Along; Still Adoring Whatever Is Behind Us. We Insist Upon Worshipping 'the God Of Our Fathers.' Why Not The God Of Our Children? Does Eternity Only Stretch One Way?

Through It [literature] We Know The Past, Govern The Present, And Influence The Future.