That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.