Unless A Capacity For Thinking Be Accompanied

The Literature Of The Inner Life Is Very Largely A Record Of Struggle With The Inordinate Passions Of The Social Self.

Between Richer And Poorer Classes In A Free Country A Mutually Respecting Antagonism Is Much Healthier Than Pity On The One Hand And Dependence On The Other, As Is, Perhaps, The Next Best Thing To Fraternal Feeling.

We Cannot Feel Strongly Toward The Totally Unlike Because It Is Unimaginable, Unrealizable; Nor Yet Toward The Wholly Like Because It Is Stale - Identity Must Always Be Dull Company. The Power Of Other Natures Over Us Lies In A Stimulating Difference Which Causes Excitement And Opens Communication, In Ideas Similar To Our Own But Not Identical, In States Of Mind Attainable But Not Actual.

Freedom Is The Opportunity For Right Development, For Development In Accordance With The Progressive Ideal Of Life That We Have In Conscience.

The Social Self Is Simply Any Idea, Or System Of Ideas, Drawn From The Communicative Life, That The Mind Cherishes As Its Own.