Learning Is Not Easy, But

There Are Plenty Of People To Whom The Crucial Problem Of Their Lives Never Get Presented In Terms That They Can Understand.

The Average Educated Man In America Has About As Much Knowledge Of What A Political Idea Is As He Has Of The Principles Of Counterpoint. Each Is A Thing Used In Politics Or Music Which Those Fellows Who Practice Politics Or Music Manipulate Somehow. Show Him One And He Will Deny That It Is Politics At All. It Must Be Corrupt Or He Will Not Recognize It. He Has Only Seen Dried Figs. He Has Only Thought Dried Thoughts. A Live Thought Or A Real Idea Is Against The Rules Of His Mind.

Nothing Is More Injurious To The Character And To The Intellect Than The Suppression Of A Generous Emotion.

One Of The Deepest Impulses In Man Is The Impulse To Record, - To Scratch A Drawing On A Tusk Or Keep A Diary, To Collect Sagas And Heap Cairns. This Instinct As To The Enduring Value Of The Past Is, One Might Say, The Very Basis Of Civilization.

Everybody In America Is Soft, And Hates Conflict. The Cure For This, Both In Politics And Social Life, Is The Same - Hardihood. Give Them Raw Truth.