Things That Make Us Alike

The Popular Books Are The Novels, Dealing With Life Under All Possible Conditions, And They Are Widely Read Not Only Because They Are Entertaining, But Also Because They In A Measure Satisfy An Unformulated Belief That To See Farther, To Know All Sorts Of Men, In An Indefinite Way, Is A Preparation For Better Social Adjustment--for The Remedying Of Social Ills.

It Is As Easy For Most Of Us To Keep From Stealing Our Dinners As It Is To Digest Them, And There Is Quite As Much Voluntary Morality Involved In One Process As The Other.

The Cheap Drama Brings Cause And Effect, Will Power And Action, Once More Into Relation And Gives A Man The Thrilling Conviction That He May Yet Be Master Of His Fate.

The Worth Of Every Conviction Consists Precisely In The Steadfastness With Which It Is Held.

But The Paradox Is Here: When Cultivated People Do Stay Away From A Certain Portion Of The Population, When All Social Advantages Are Persistently Withheld, It May Be For Years, The Result Itself Is Pointed To As A Reason And Is Used As An Argument For The Continued Withholding.