The Idea That Seeing Life Means Going

I Is A Militant Social Tendency, Working To Hold And Enlarge Its Place In The General Current Of Tendencies. So Far As It Can It Waxes, As All Life Does. To Think Of It As Apart From Society Is A Palpable Absurdity Of Which No One Could Be Guilty Who Really Saw It As A Fact Of Life.

In Most Cases A Favorite Writer Is More With Us In His Book Than He Ever Could Have Been In The Flesh; Since, Being A Writer, He Is One Who Has Studied And Perfected This Particular Mode Of Personal Incarnation, Very Likely To The Detriment Of Any Other. I Should Like As A Matter Of Curiosity To See And Hear For A Moment The Men Whose Works I Admire; But I Should Hardly Expect To Find Further Intercourse Particularly Profitable.

We Are Born To Action And Whatever Is Capable Of Suggesting And Guiding Action Has Power Over Us From The First.

In The Days Of Witchcraft It Used To Be Believed That If One Person Secretly Made A Waxen Image Of Another And Stuck Pins Into The Image, Its Counterpart Would Suffer Tortures, And That If The Image Was Melted The Person Would Die. This Superstition Is Almost Realized In The Relation Between The Private Self And Its Social Reflection. They Seem To Separate But Are Darkly United, And What Is Done To The One Is Done To The Other.

As Social Beings We Live With Our Eyes Upon Our Reflection, But Have No Assurance Of The Tranquillity Of The Waters In Which We See It.