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The Soaring, Imaginative Minds Of Men, Constructing Lofty, Shimmering Piles Of Abstract Thought, And Taking As Their Postulate A Revelation From God, Gaveus Relgions Which Coule Not Possible Maintained Without Belief And Obedience: ... We Find Them Most Permanent And Changeless Among People Who Make The Least Effort To Swquare Their Beliefs With The Laws Of Life.

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.

The Child Learns More Of The Virtues Needed In Modern Life-of Fairness, Of Justice, Of Comradeship, Of Collective Interest And Action-in A Common School Than Can Be Taught In The Most Perfect Family Circle

I Ran Against A Prejudice That Quite Cut Off The View.

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.