Nothing Natural Can Be Wholly Unworthy.

The Great, The Fundamental Need Of Any Nation, Any Race, Is For Heroism, Devotion, Sacrifice; And There Cannot Be Heroism, Devotion, Or Sacrifice In A Primarily Skeptical Spirit.

I Care Not For The Theoretical Symmetry And Impregnable Logic Of Your Moral Code, I Care Not For The Hoary Respectability And Traditional Mysticisms Of Your Theological Institutions, I Care Not For The Beauty And Solemnity Of Your Rituals And Religious Ceremonies, I Care Not Even For The Reasonableness And Unimpeachable Fairness Of Your Social Ethics,--if It Does Not Turn Out Better, Nobler, Truer, Men And Women,--if It Does Not Add To The World's Stock Of Valuable Souls,--if It Does Not Give Us A Sounder, Healthier, More Reliable Product From This Great Factory Of Men--i Will Have None Of It.

With Five To Ten Hundred Pure-minded Young Women Threading The Streets Of The Village Every Evening Unattended, Vice Must Slink Away, Like Frost Before The Rising Sun.

One Needs Occasionally To Stand Aside From The Hum And Rush Of Human Interests And Passions To Hear The Voices Of God.

... While Our Men Seem Thoroughly Abreast Of The Times On Almost Every Other Subject, When They Strike The Woman Question They Drop Back Into Sixteenth Century Logic. They Leave Nothing To Be Desired Generally In Regard To Gallantry And Chivalry, But They Actually Do Not Seem Sometimes To Have Outgrown That Old Contemporary Of Chivalry--the Idea That Women May Stand On Pedestals Or Live In Doll Houses,... But They Must Not Furrow Their Brows With Thought Or Attempt To Help Men Tug At The Great Questions Of The World.