To Swallow And Follow, Whether

If Only Religion Could Be Brought To Take An Interest In This Earthly Future, What A Help It Would Be! ... Think Of The Appeal To The Less Spiritual Of Us, To Those Who Never Did Get Enthusiastic About Eternity, Or Care So Tenderly About Their Own Souls, Yet Who Could Rise To The Thought Of Improving This World For The Children They Love, And Their Children After Them.

California Is A State Peculiarly Addicted To Swift Enthusiasms. It Is A Seed-bed Of All Manner Of Cults And Theories, Taken Up, And Dropped, With Equal Speed.

The Original Necessity For The Ceaseless Presence Of The Woman To Maintain That Altar Fire - And It Was An Altar Fire In Very Truth At One Period - Has Passed With The Means Of Prompt Ignition; The Matchbox Has Freed The Housewife From That Incessant Service, But The Feeling That Women Should Stay At Home Is With Us Yet.

The First Duty Of A Human Being Is To Assume The Right Functional Relationship To Society - More Briefly, To Find Your Real Job, And Do It.

(i Would Not Say It To A Living Soul, Of Course, But This Is Dead Paper And A Great Relief To My Mind