A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.