The Passion Of Self-aggrandizement Is Persistent But

A Person Of Mature Years And Ripe Development, Who Is Expecting Nothing From Literature But The Corroboration And Renewal Of Past Ideas, May Find Satisfaction In A Lucidity So Complete As To Occasion No Imaginative Excitement, But Young And Ambitious Students Are Not Content With It. They Seek The Excitement Because They Are Capable Of The Growth That It Accompanies.

Each Man Must Have His I; It Is More Necessary To Him Than Bread; And If He Does Not Find Scope For It Within The Existing Institutions He Will Be Likely To Make Trouble.

We Have No Higher Life That Is Really Apart From Other People. It Is By Imagining Them That Our Personality Is Built Up; To Be Without The Power Of Imagining Them Is To Be A Low-grade Idiot.

Since Freedom Is Not A Fixed Thing That Can Be Grasped And Held Once For All, But A Growth, Any Particular Society, Such As Our Own, Always Appears Partly Free And Partly Unfree. In So Far As It Favors, In Every Child, The Development Of His Highest Possibilities, It Is Free, But Where It Falls Short Of This It Is Not.

The More Developed Sexual Passion, In Both Sexes, Is Very Largely An Emotion Of Power, Domination, Or Appropriation. There Is No State Of Feeling That Says Mine, Mine, More Fiercely.