The Thing That Moves Us To Pride

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.

There Is Perhaps No Sort Of Self More Subject To Dangerous Egotism Than That Which Deludes Itself With The Notion That It Is Not A Self At All, But Something Else. It Is Well To Beware Of Persons Who Believe That The Cause, The Mission, The Philanthropy, The Hero, Or Whatever It May Be That They Strive For, Is Outside Of Themselves, So That They Feel A Certain Irresponsibility, And Are Likely To Do Things Which They Would Recognize As Wrong If Done In Behalf Of An Acknowledged Self.

If Youth Is The Period Of Hero-worship, So Also Is It True That Hero-worship, More Than Anything Else, Perhaps, Gives One The Sense Of Youth. To Admire, To Expand One's Self, To Forget The Rut, To Have A Sense Of Newness And Life And Hope, Is To Feel Young At Any Time Of Life.

The Imaginations Which People Have Of One Another Are The Solid Facts Of Society.

Could Anything Be More Indicative Of A Slight But General Insanity Than The Aspect Of The Crowd On The Streets Of Chicago?