Perhaps Nothing Is So Fraught With Significance

Hospitality Still Survives Among Foreigners, Although It Is Buried Under False Pride Among The Poorest Americans.

We Forget That The Accumulation Of Knowledge And The Holding Of Convictions Must Finally Result In The Application Of That Knowledge And Those Convictions To Life Itself.

We Have Learned To Say That The Good Must Be Extended To All Of Society Before It Can Be Held Secure By Any One Person Or Any One Class. But We Have Not Yet Learned To Add To That Statement, That Unless All [people] And All Classes Contribute To A Good, We Cannot Even Be Sure That It Is Worth Having.

We Continually Forget That The Sphere Of Morals Is The Sphere Of Action, That Speculation In Regard To Morality Is But Observation And Must Remain In The Sphere Of Intellectual Comment, That A Situation Does Not Really Become Moral Until We Are Confronted With The Question Of What Shall Be Done In A Concrete Case, And Are Obliged To Act Upon Our Theory.

It Is Possible That An Individual May Be Successful, Largely Because He Conserves All His Powers For Individual Achievement And Does Not Put Any Of His Energy Into The Training Which Will Give Him The Ability To Act With Others. The Individual Acts Promptly, And We Are Dazzled By His Success While Only Dimly Conscious Of The Inadequacy Of His Code.