To Speak Broadly, The Troubles Of Life

At Any Given Period In History The Ideas Of The Common Mind Are Found To Antedate The Facts. The Facts Of The Twentieth Century Are Approached With The Ideas, Feelings, Prejudices Of The Tenth.

A Million Million Worlds That Move In Peace;a Million Mighty Laws That Never Cease;and One Small Ant-heap, Hidden By Small Weeds,rich With Eggs, Slaves And Store Of Millet-seeds.they Sleep Beneath The Sodand Trust In God.

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

The Home Is A Human Institution. All Human Institutions Are Open To Improvement.

Woman" In The Abstract Is Young, And, We Assume, Charming. As They Get Older They Pass Off The Stage, Somehow, Into Private Ownership Mostly, Or Out Of It Altogether.