Things That Make Us Alike Are Finer

If The Underdog Were Always Right, One Might Quite Easily Try To Defend Him. The Trouble Is That Very Often He Is But Obscurely Right, Sometimes Only Partially Right, And Often Quite Wrong; But Perhaps He Is Never So Altogether Wrong And Pig-headed And Utterly Reprehensible As He Is Represented To Be By Those Who Add The Possession Of Prejudices To The Other Almost Insuperable Difficulties Of Understanding Him.

The Identification With The Common Lot Which Is The Essential Idea Of Democracy Becomes The Source And Expression Of Social Ethics. It Is As Though We Thirsted To Drink At The Great Wells Of Human Experience, Because We Knew That A Daintier Or Less Potent Draught Would Not Carry Us To The End Of The Journey, Going Forward As We Must In The Heat And Jostle Of The Crowd.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

Our Conceptions Of Morality, As All Our Other Ideas, Pass Through A Course Of Development; The Difficulty Comes In Adjusting Our Conduct, Which Has Become Hardened Into Customs And Habits, To These Changing Moral Conceptions. When This Adjustment Is Not Made, We Suffer From The Strain And Indecision Of Believing One Hypothesis And Acting Upon Another.

This Dream That Men Shall Cease To Waste Strength In Competition And Shall Come To Pool Their Powers Of Production Is Coming To Pass All Over The Earth.