The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.