Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery