If Youth Is The Period

The More Developed Sexual Passion, In Both Sexes, Is Very Largely An Emotion Of Power, Domination, Or Appropriation. There Is No State Of Feeling That Says Mine, Mine, More Fiercely.

There Is Perhaps No Sort Of Self More Subject To Dangerous Egotism Than That Which Deludes Itself With The Notion That It Is Not A Self At All, But Something Else. It Is Well To Beware Of Persons Who Believe That The Cause, The Mission, The Philanthropy, The Hero, Or Whatever It May Be That They Strive For, Is Outside Of Themselves, So That They Feel A Certain Irresponsibility, And Are Likely To Do Things Which They Would Recognize As Wrong If Done In Behalf Of An Acknowledged Self.

It Happens From Time To Time In Every Complex And Active Society, That Certain Persons Feel The Complexity And Insistence As A Tangle, And Seek Freedom In Retirement, As Thoreau Sought At Walden Pond. They Do Not, However, In This Manner Escape From The Social Institutions Of Their Time, Nor Do They Really Mean To Do So; What They Gain, If They Are Successful, Is A Saner Relation To Them.

The Imaginations Which People Have Of One Another Are The Solid Facts Of Society.

The Literature Of The Inner Life Is Very Largely A Record Of Struggle With The Inordinate Passions Of The Social Self.