Behavior Of Such Cunning Cruelty

Why Is Humanity So Excessive In The Way It Does Things? The Golden Mean Seems Out Of Fashion.

Here Is One Of The Points About This Planet Which Should Be Remembered; Into Every Penetrable Corner Of It, And Into Most Of The Impenetrable Corners, The English Will Penetrate. They Are Like That; Born Invaders. They Cannot Stay At Home.

God Very Seldom Succeeds. He Has Very Nearly Everything Against Him, Of Course.

You Point Out That War Is Only A Symptom Of The Whole Horrid Business Of Human Behavior, And Cannot Be Isolated. And That, Even If We Abolish War, We Shall Not Abolish Hate And Greed. So Might It Have Been Argued About Slave Emancipation, That Slavery Was But One Aspect Of Human Disgustingness, And That To Abolish It Would Not End The Barbarity That Causes It. But Did The Abolitionists Therefore Waste Their Breath? And Do We Waste Ours Now In Protesting Against War?

Parents Are Untamed, Excessive, Potentially Troublesome Creatures; Charming To Be With For A Time, In The Main They Must Lead Their Own Lives, Independent And Self-employed, With Companions Of Their Own Age And Selection.