A Family Unity Which Is

The Women Who Do The Most Work Get The Least Money, And The Women Who Have The Most Money Do The Least Work.

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.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

In The Field Of Economics We Maintain To This Day Some Of The Most Primitive Ideas, Some Of The Most Radically False Ideas, Some Of The Most Absurd Ideas A Brain Can Hold. ... But All This Give No Uneasiness To The Average Brain. That Long-suffering Organ Has Been Trained For More Thousands Of Years Than History Can Uncover To Hold In Unquestioning Patience Great Blocks Of Irrelevant Idiocy And Large Active Lies.