In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.