THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



be improvident, or drunken, or evil in 

 any way. Food and drink, roof and 

 clothes, are the inalienable right of 

 every child born into the light. If the 

 world does not provide it freely— not as a 

 grudging gift but as a right, as a son of 

 the house sits down to breakfast— then 

 is the world mad. But the world is not 

 mad, only in ignorance— an interested 

 ignorance, kept up by strenuous exer- 

 tions, from which infernal darkness it 

 will, in course of time, emerge, marvel- 

 ling at the past as a man wonders at and 

 glories in the light who has escaped from 

 blindness.— 'The Story of my Heart.' 



WE must endeavour to under- 

 stand the crookedness and 

 unfamiliar curves of the 

 conditions of life. Beyond that still 

 there are other ideas. Never, never 

 rest contented with any circle of ideas, 

 but always be certain that a wider one 



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