She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman's natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction..., self-abnegation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm bored to extinction with Harrison. His limericks and puns are embarrassing.... But I'm fond of the bum, For, though dull as they come, He makes me feel bright by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to b...e taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo- a...nd heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping t...he turf so as to get at what is fertile beneath. It would be amusing to carry the simile further. Those bulbs that flower in the sand and wither! The gay fiction annual that has to be planted again every year! Those experimental plants from Russia, France, and Greenwich Village that are always getting winter killed--confound 'em!--is it worth while planting them again? The stocky perennial that keeps coming up and coming up--so easy to grow and so ugly. Scarlet sage that gives a touch of fiery sin to the edge of the suburbanite's concrete walk! And then the good flowers--as honest as they are beautiful! The well-ordered gar den! The climbing rose that escapes and is the most beautiful of all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science... is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extincti...on of all privileged classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »