Poverty = absence of stored up economic force. It may arise from sickness, accident, or from various temporary conditions. The person now subject to poverty may have within himself the cure for it. The pauper cannot cure himself, and all help given him but intensifies his pauperism. * * * * Why all this misery … Read the article »

“As a snow bank grows where there is a lull in the wind, so where there is a lull in the truth, institutions spring up; by and by the truth blows over them and takes them away.” (Thoreau.) All forms of tyranny have their beginning in kindness. * * * * There are schools which … Read the article »

All advances in one structure imply degradation of some other. The specialization of the human hand has been at the cost of the human foot. The power to live by his wits has taken from man something of the strength and spryness of his ape-like ancestors. To have one’s food cooked means the reduction of … Read the article »

The child has about as many nerve-veils as the adult. They differ from those of the adult in form. Those of the child are mostly round, whereas those of the adult have very many branches with which they connect with the other cells. Nervous growth seems to consist largely in the formation of new nervous … Read the article »

Is the grim watchword of Nature. Millions are dying for sheer lack, of plasticity to modify themselves with change of conditions. (Especially in India – Ed.) Irritability or the response to external stimulus is an attribute of all living animals, and as “function always precedes structure,” irritability is the basis of mind. The intellect of … Read the article »

Where instead of wasting energy on struggle with the (1) like, alliance with the like is secured, Sure victory is gained in the (2) Struggle with the Unlike. And where love even for the unlike is entertained, Victory and success is our (3) struggle with Nature is guaranteed. Real struggle is with the elements (flesh) … Read the article »

Fame is a jutting crag which may project from a very low mountain. Far higher elevations may not catch the eye if their outline is not unusual.” * * * * If conjugation be prevented in protozoa, the animal soon shows increasing signs of degeneration which result in death. Read the article »

Neither mental nor manual labour is incompatible with longevity, except the one is maintained at the expense of the other. Sophocles, the greatest tragic poet of Greece, wrote dramas for 60 years and is said to have recited his own poems in public at 88 years of age. Plato ceased his labour at 80. Socrates … Read the article »

The division of Wealth is artificial, not organic, not natural or inherent in the system of man. This factor terribly checks the struggling would be differentiation of individuality and also the integration of the like to like, therefore, this unnatural element must drop off, just as despotism dropped off to make room for limited monarchy … Read the article »

Q. 1. Is it right to pray for a change of season? The candidates thought it was not because the relations which produce winter and summer are fixed in the structure of the Solar system and cannot be altered for man’s pleasure or man’s need. Q. 2. Is it right to pray for rain? Candidates: … Read the article »