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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ”
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ”
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance. ”
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. ”
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ”
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ”
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. ”
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. ”
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ”
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. ”