The Immense Value Of Becoming

Pain And Death Are Part Of Life. To Reject Them Is To Reject Life Itself.

Greek Is The Embodiment Of The Fluent Speech That Runs Or Soars, The Speech Of A People Which Could Not Help Giving Winged Feet Toits God Of Art. Latin Is The Embodiment Of The Weighty And Concentrated Speech Which Is Hammered And Pressed And Polished Into The Shape Of Its Perfection, As The Ethically Minded Romans Believed That The Soul Also Should Be Wrought.

We Cannot Be Sure That We Ought Not To Regard The Most Criminal Country As That Which In Some Aspects Possesses The Highest Civilization.

There Is Held To Be No Surer Test Of Civilization Than The Increase Per Head Of The Consumption Of Alcohol And Tobacco. Yet Alcohol And Tobacco Are Recognizable Poisons, So That Their Consumption Has Only To Be Carried Far Enough To Destroy Civilization Altogether.

Those Persons Who Are Burning To Display Heroism May Rest Assured That The Course Of Social Evolution Will Offer Them Every Opportunity.