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California Is A State Peculiarly Addicted To Swift Enthusiasms. It Is A Seed-bed Of All Manner Of Cults And Theories, Taken Up, And Dropped, With Equal Speed.

The Stony-minded Orthodox Were Right In Fearing The First Movement Of New Knowledge And Free Thought. It Has Gone On, And Will Go On, Irresistibly, Until Some Day We Shall Have No Respect For An Alleged "truth" Which Cannot Stand The Full Blaze Of Knowledge, The Full Force Of Active Thought.

So When The Great Word "mother!" Rang Once More, I Saw At Last Its Meaning And Its Place; Not The Blind Passion Of The Brooding Past, But Mother -- The World's Mother -- Come At Last, To Love As She Had Never Loved Before -- To Feed And Guard And Teach The Human Race.

Audiences Are Always Better Pleased With A Smart Retort, Some Joke Or Epigram, Than With Any Amount Of Reasoning.

I Cry At Nothing, And Cry Most Of The Time.