With Five To Ten Hundred Pure-minded Young

Agnosticism Has Nothing To Impart. Its Sermons Are The Exhortations Of One Who Convinces You He Stands On Nothing And Urges You To Stand There Too.

Respect For Woman, The Much Lauded Chivalry Of The Middle Ages, Meant What I Fear It Still Means To Some Men In Our Own Day - Respect For The Elect Few Among Whom They Expect To Consort.

One Of The Most Singular Facts About The Unwritten History Of This Country Is The Consummate Ability With Which Southern Influence, Southern Ideas And Southern Ideals, Have From The Very Beginning Even Up To The Present Day, Dictated To And Domineered Over The Brain And Sinew Of This Nation.

I Care Not For The Theoretical Symmetry And Impregnable Logic Of Your Moral Code, I Care Not For The Hoary Respectability And Traditional Mysticisms Of Your Theological Institutions, I Care Not For The Beauty And Solemnity Of Your Rituals And Religious Ceremonies, I Care Not Even For The Reasonableness And Unimpeachable Fairness Of Your Social Ethics,--if It Does Not Turn Out Better, Nobler, Truer, Men And Women,--if It Does Not Add To The World's Stock Of Valuable Souls,--if It Does Not Give Us A Sounder, Healthier, More Reliable Product From This Great Factory Of Men--i Will Have None Of It.

It Is The Curse Of Minorities In This Power-worshipping World That Either From Fear Or From An Uncertain Policy Of Expedience They Distrust Their Own Standards And Hesitate To Give Voice To Their Deeper Convictions, Submitting Supinely To Estimates And Characterizations Of Themselves As Handed Down By A Not Unprejudiced Dominant Majority.