Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social org...anizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragment...ary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already ...dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone having that dual familiarity with prewar small towns and modern shopping malls will ... be repelled by the comparison. A pr...eoccupation with physical facades coupled with a lack of sociological insight is common among the mall's many fans.... Totally unlike Main Street, the shopping mall is populated by strangers. As people circulate about in the constant, monotonous flow of mall pedestrian traffic, their eyes do not cast about for familiar faces, for the chance of seeing one is small. That is not part of what one expects there. The reason is simple. The mall is centrally located to serve the multitudes from a number of outlying developments within its region. There is little acquaintance between these developments and not much more within them. Most of them lack focal points or core settings and, as a result, people are not widely known to one another, even in their own neighborhoods, and their neighborhood is only a minority portion of the mall's clientele.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is ...composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, let's say, or Doc Williams's Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic ... formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear... A number in. But what about the brook That held the house as in an elbow-crook?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. B...ut most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis w...ith a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The higher the state of civilization, the more completely do the actions of one member of the social body influence all the rest, ...and the less possible is it for any one man to do a wrong thing without interfering, more or less, with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »