Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.