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America has welcomed many distinguished persons to her shore during the last few years. Kings and Queens ("you said a mouthful!"), musicians and scientists, statesmen and warriors, have crossed the sea to be entertained lavishly and honored in every conceivable way by cities throughout the country. American hospitals is a whose however, our national enthusiasm is so boundless that our most honored guests frequently return home mentally confused and physically exhausted by the continual round of functions that is proffered them. While celebrated visitors are flattered, no doubt, and gratified by the thunder-showers of attention with which they...
...imposed on the body by the doctors. They are the nature of the body and are discovered by the doctors. The laws of the social order are not imposed on society by Kings or Congress; they are the nature of the social order and are discovered there by statesmen. The greatest need of the world today is not a better knowledge of nature, that is science; it is a better knowledge of men that is morals. It is not more certain that water quenches thirst and fire expels cold than it is that selfishness separates men and good will unites...
...when in college told me recently that every year he has received appreciative letters from all the members of his group, most of whom have now become good citizens. Seemingly insignificant incidents like these make for human progress far more than big organizations or even the work of statesmen. William James has the right idea about progress when he wrote: "I am against all big successes and big results: and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way--underdogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts...
Millions and millions of people--scholars, statesmen, financiers, laborers--all sharing one thought in common; "there must be an end of war." Not since 1918 has there been such unanimity of thought and effort. And as the war was fought to make an end of war, today the same goal is sought; it is only the means of attainment that differ. Not to put it too optimistically, is almost seems as if once more the world had some specific destination in view...
...complete relaxation before a period of sustained effort will coordinate the faculties and bring them into focus. This little expedient of "collecting one's wits" by dispersing them altogether for a few moments is practiced by such diverse people as baseball players, musicians, public speakers, actors, and even statesmen...