The Mass Of Men Seldom Move Together

The Popular Books Are The Novels, Dealing With Life Under All Possible Conditions, And They Are Widely Read Not Only Because They Are Entertaining, But Also Because They In A Measure Satisfy An Unformulated Belief That To See Farther, To Know All Sorts Of Men, In An Indefinite Way, Is A Preparation For Better Social Adjustment--for The Remedying Of Social Ills.

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.

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

I Might Believe I Had Unusual Talent If I Did Not Know What Good Music Was; I Might Enjoy Half An Hour's Practice A Day If I Were Busy And Happy The Rest Of The Time. You Do Not Know What Life Means When All The Difficulties Are Removed! I Am Simply Smothered And Sickened With Advantages. It Is Like Eating A Sweet Dessert The First Thing In The Morning.

All Those Hints And Glimpses Of A Larger And More Satisfying Democracy, Which Literature And Our Own Hopes Supply, Have A Tendency To Slip Away From Us And To Leave Us Sadly Unguided And Perplexed When We Attempt To Act Upon Them.