_'What's Wrong with the World.'_ SEPTEMBER 27th Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. _'The Napoleon of Notting Hill.'_ SEPTEMBER 28th I should not be at all surprised if I turned one corner in Fleet Street and saw a queer looking window, turned another corner and saw a yet queerer looking lamp; I should not be surprised if I turned a third corner and found myself in Elfland. _'Tremendous Trifles.'_ SEPTEMBER 29th _ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS_ Historic Christianity has always believed in the valour of St. Michael riding in front of the Church Militant, and in an ultimate and absolute pleasure, not indirect or utilitarian, the intoxication of the Spirit, the wine of the blood of God. _'George Bernard Shaw.'_ SEPTEMBER 30th When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. _'What's Wrong with the World.'_ OCTOBER OCTOBER 1st Of all the tests by which the good citizen and strong reformer can be distinguished from the vague faddist or the inhuman sceptic, I know no better test than this--that the unreal reformer sees in front of him one certain future, the future of his fad; while the real reformer sees before him ten or twenty futures among which his country must choose, and may in some dreadful hour choose the wrong one. The true patriot is always doubtful of victory; because he knows that he is dealing with a living thing; a thing with free will. To be certain of free will is to be uncertain of success. _Introduction to 'American Notes.'_ OCTOBER 2nd Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless--one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoian's will is frozen by a Buddhistic instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite's will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the cross roads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is--well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross roads. _'Orthodoxy.'_ OCTOBER 3rd Modern women defend their office with all the fierceness of domesticity. They fight for desk and typewriter as for hearth and home, and develop a sort of wolfish wifehood on behalf of the invisible head of the firm. That is why they do office work so well; and that is why they ought not to do it. _'What's Wrong with the World.'_ OCTOBER 4th _ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI_