The Essence Of Immorality Is The Tendency

What Is A Great Man Who Has Made His Mark Upon History? Every Time, If We Think Far Enough, He Is A Man Who Has Looked Through The Confusion Of The Moment And Has Seen The Moral Issue Involved; He Is A Man Who Has Refused To Have His Sense Of Justice Distorted; He Has Listened To His Conscience Until Conscience Becomes A Trumpet Call To Like-minded Men, So That They Gather About Him, And Together, With Mutual Purpose And Mutual Aid, They Make A New Period In History.

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?

Our Conceptions Of Morality, As All Our Other Ideas, Pass Through A Course Of Development; The Difficulty Comes In Adjusting Our Conduct, Which Has Become Hardened Into Customs And Habits, To These Changing Moral Conceptions. When This Adjustment Is Not Made, We Suffer From The Strain And Indecision Of Believing One Hypothesis And Acting Upon Another.

All Those Hints And Glimpses Of A Larger And More Satisfying Democracy, Which Literature And Our Own Hopes Supply, Have A Tendency To Slip Away From Us And To Leave Us Sadly Unguided And Perplexed When We Attempt To Act Upon Them.

Even Death Itself Sometimes Fails To Bring The Dignity And Serenity Which One Would Fain Associate With Old Age.