Only As We Live, Think, Feel, And

Woman" In The Abstract Is Young, And, We Assume, Charming. As They Get Older They Pass Off The Stage, Somehow, Into Private Ownership Mostly, Or Out Of It Altogether.

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.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

The Religious Need Of The Human Mind Remains Alive, Never More So, But It Demands A Teaching Which Can Be Understood. Slowly An Apprehension Of The Intimate, Usable Power Of God Is Growing Among Us, And A Growing Recognition Of The Only Worth-while Application Of That Power-in The Improvement Of The World.

A Family Unity Which Is Only Bound Together With A Table-cloth Is Of Questionable Value.