Pliable Human Nature Is Relentlessly Pressed Upon

As The Acceptance Of Democracy Brings A Certain Life-giving Power, So It Has Its Own Sanctions And Comforts. Perhaps The Most Obvious One Is The Curious Sense Which Comes To Us From Time To Time, That We Belong To The Whole, That A Certain Basic Well Being Can Never Be Taken Away From Us Whatever The Turn Of Fortune.

The Lessons Of Great Men And Women Are Lost Unless They Reinforce Upon Our Minds The Highest Demands Which We Make Upon Ourselves; They Are Lost Unless They Drive Our Sluggish Wills Forward In The Direction Of Their Highest Ideas.

Old-fashioned Ways Which No Longer Apply To Changed Conditions Are A Snare In Which The Feet Of Women Have Always Become Readily Entangled.

Even Death Itself Sometimes Fails To Bring The Dignity And Serenity Which One Would Fain Associate With Old Age.

What After All, Has Maintained The Human Race On This Old Globe Despite All The Calamities Of Nature And All The Tragic Failings Of Mankind, If Not Faith In New Possibilities, And Courage To Advocate Them. Doubtless Many Times These New Possibilities Were Declared By A Man Who, Quite Unconscious Of Courage, Bore The "sense Of Being An Exile, A Condemned Criminal, A Fugitive From Mankind." Did Every One So Feel Who, In Order To Travel On His Own Proper Path Had Been Obliged To Leave The Traditional Highway?