Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.