When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go,... who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle--all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; ...it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You were sent to get food, not treasure. You can't eat pieces of eight.... You place an absurd value on the cheapest of human comm...odities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, inconte...stably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value f...or anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent "celibacy," by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity "backward."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole of modern thought is steeped in science; it has made its way into the works of all our best poets, and even the mere man... of letters, who affects to ignore and despise science, is unconsciously impregnated with her spirit, and indebted for his best products to her methods. I believe that the greatest intellectual revolution mankind has yet seen is now slowly taking place by her agency. She is teaching the world that the ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment, and not authority; she is teaching it to estimate the value of evidence; she is creating a firm and living faith in the existence of immutable moral and physical laws, perfect obedience to which is the highest possible aim of a intelligent being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make o...ur children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, "Go to sleep by yourselves." And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The predicate of truth-value of a proposition, therefore, is a mere fictive quality; its place is in an ideal world of science onl...y, whereas actual science cannot make use of it. Actual science instead employs throughout the predicate of weight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »