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.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.