Life Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

The Child Learns More Of The Virtues Needed In Modern Life-of Fairness, Of Justice, Of Comradeship, Of Collective Interest And Action-in A Common School Than Can Be Taught In The Most Perfect Family Circle

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

I Used To Lie Awake As A Child And Get More Entertainment And Terror Out Of Blank Walls And Plain Furniture Than Most Children Could Find In A Toy-store.

(i Would Not Say It To A Living Soul, Of Course, But This Is Dead Paper And A Great Relief To My Mind

It Is Dull Enough To Confuse The Eye In Following, Pronounced Enough To Constantly Irritate And Provoke Study, And When You Follow The Lame Uncertain Curves For A Little Distance They Suddenly Commit Suicide—plunge Off At Outrageous Angles, Destroy Themselves In Unheard Of Contradictions.