Social Distinctions Concern Themselves Ultimately

There Is No Morality By Instinct. There Is No Social Salvation In The End Without Taking Thought; Without Mastery Of Logic And Application Of Logic To Human Experience.

Every One Knows About The Young Man Who Falls In Love With The Chorus-girl Because She Can Kick His Hat Off, And His Sister's Friends Can't Or Won't. But The Youth Who Marries Her, Expecting That All Her Departures From Convention Will Be As Agile Or As Delightful To Him As That, Is Still The Classic Example Of Folly.

All Violations Of Essential Privacy Are Brutalizing.

We Put [young Children] Into Kindergarten Where Their Reasoning Powers Are Ruined; Or, If We Can Afford It, We Buy Montessori Outfits That Were Invented For Semi-imbeciles In Italian Slums; Or We Send Them To Outdoor Schools And Give Them Prizes For Sleeping.

The Indiscreet Questioner - And By Indiscreet Questions I Mean Questions Which It Is Not Conceivably A Man's Duty Either To The Community Or To Any Individual To Answer - Is A Marauder, And There Is Every Excuse For Treating Him As Such.