There Are Plenty Of People To Whom

A Magazine Or A Newspaper Is A Shop. Each Is An Experiment And Represents A New Focus, A New Ratio Between Commerce And Intellect.

Is There Something In Trade That Desiccates And Flattens Out, That Turns Men Into Dried Leaves At The Age Of Forty? Certainly There Is. It Is Not Due To Trade But To Intensity Of Self-seeking, Combined With Narrowness Of Occupation. Business Has Destroyed The Very Knowledge In Us Of All Other Natural Forces Except Business.

Wherever You See A Man Who Gives Someone Else's Corruption, Someone Else's Prejudice As A Reason For Not Taking Action Himself, You See A Cog In The Machine That Governs Us.

Everybody In America Is Soft, And Hates Conflict. The Cure For This, Both In Politics And Social Life, Is The Same - Hardihood. Give Them Raw Truth.

The Short Lesson That Comes Out Of Long Experience In Political Agitation Is Something Like This: All The Motive Power In All Of These Movements Is The Instinct Of Religious Feeling. All The Obstruction Comes From Attempting To Rely On Anything Else. Conciliation Is The Enemy.