It Is Easy To Become The Dupe

The Popular Books Are The Novels, Dealing With Life Under All Possible Conditions, And They Are Widely Read Not Only Because They Are Entertaining, But Also Because They In A Measure Satisfy An Unformulated Belief That To See Farther, To Know All Sorts Of Men, In An Indefinite Way, Is A Preparation For Better Social Adjustment--for The Remedying Of Social Ills.

When The Entire Moral Energy Of An Individual Goes Into The Cultivation Of Personal Integrity, We All Know How Unlovely The Result May Become; The Character Is Upright, Of Course, But Too Coated Over With The Result Of Its Own Endeavor To Be Attractive.

The Blessing Which We Associate With A Life Of Refinement And Cultivation Can Be Made Universal And Must Be Made Universal If They Are To Be Permanent.

I Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.

The Very Word Woman In The Writings Of The Church Fathers Stood For The Basest Of Temptations... As Women Were Lowered In The Moral Scale Because Of Their Identification With Her At The Very Bottom Of The Pit, So They Cannot Rise Themselves Save As They Succeed In Lifting Her With Whose Sins They Are Weighed.