Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundre...d thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You protest too much.... You cannot tolerate a faith in humanity, because if you do, all this, the structure of your very existenc...e, which you have built on hate and vengeance, all this will collapse around the naked lie of your life. You are a beaten man at war with the dictates of his heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not difficult to see the analogies and contrasts of the Christian view of man to that of the Marxist. What Marx calls aliena...tion is in Christian conceptualization the fall of man from his essential innocence into a situation of conflict with himself and his creative ground. Man is not what he could and should be. That holds for the individual as well as for society; and it is true also of the universe, which participates in the fate of man. Man stands against man, group against group, being against being. Schism characterizes everything that exists in the soul of the individual, in humanity, and in the universe. The contrast with the Marxist view of man, however, is clear in spite of all these analogies. The "fall" in Christian conception is universal; "estrangement" in the Marxist view is bound to a special period of time. The Christian symbol of paradise is transhistorical; the Marxist symbol of primitive communism, historical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of gove...rnment, society and home, instead of being consumed in the struggle to obtain their birthright of individual freedom? Until this be gained we can never know, we can not even prophesy the capacity and power of women for the uplifting of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has only just begun to dawn on us that in our own language alone, not to speak of its many companions, the past history of huma...nity is spread out in an imperishable map, just as the history of the mineral earth lies embedded in the layers of its outer crust. But there is this difference between the record of the rocks and the secrets which are hidden in language: whereas the former can only give us knowledge of outward dead things--such as forgotten seas and the bodily shapes of prehistoric animals--language has preserved for us the inner living history of man's soul. It reveals the evolution of consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.... It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of ali...enation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »