Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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.