I Ran Against A Prejudice

(i Would Not Say It To A Living Soul, Of Course, But This Is Dead Paper And A Great Relief To My Mind

Eternity Is Not Something That Begins After You Are Dead. It Is Going On All The Time.

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.

It Is The Duty Of Youth To Bring Fresh New Powers To Bear On Social Progress. Each Generation Of Young People Should Be To The World Like A Vast Reserve Force To A Tired Army. They Should Life The World Forward. That Is What They Are For.

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.