But I restrain it. One must, you know. The loveliest man gave us such an interesting talk on self-restraint the other evening. And now I always ask myself the last thing be- fore I go to bed at night: "Have I restrained my- self today? Or have I failed?" There is no real culture without restraint, you know. That's where the English are so superior, don't you think? I met the loveliest Englishman the other evening. The moment I saw him I said to myself he was one of the aristocracy. Other people have noses like theirs, of course, but it is only the English aristocracy who can CARRY that kind of a nose. And my intuition was correct -- there are only five lives between him and a title, and one of those is a polo player and another is at the front. Someone told me his family were paying him not to go home, but what they think the poor man would do if he were in England I don't know, because they don't duel there, you know. If they dueled there, of course, he might dispose of all five lives. Don't you think those old European families are so, so -- well, so ROMANTIC somehow? STIMULATING INFLUENCES SCIENCE and philanthropy should go hand in hand -- two hearts that beat as one, if you know what I mean, and all that sort of thing. And they do, too. We were discussing it the other evening -- our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know -- and we decided that what philanthropy owes to science is made up by what science owes to philanthropy. Isn't it wonderful how things balance like that? There's the Twilight Sleep and the Mother- Teacher Idea, for instance. Our little group are thinking of starting a propaganda to urge ALL Teachers to be Mothers. And, of course, a lot of them might object -- but along comes the Twilight Sleep and takes away all POSSIBLE objections. And along comes Philanthropy to put the Twilight Sleep within the reach of all -- at least, we hope it will -- and we're going to take the matter up with some of the Philanthropists right away. Isn't it just simply WONDERFUL how Modern Thought brings subjects like that together? Of course, even Modern Thought couldn't do it, unless the subjects belonged together, anyhow, could it? Unless they were -- er -- er -- -- Well, you know, Affinities. Though I don't care much for the word. Affinities have quite gone out, you know. You don't hear much about Affinities this autumn. Nor Soul Mates, either, for that matter. Though I always will say there's an IDEA behind all the talk about them. Isn't it odd about things that way -- how Ideas come and go, you know, and become quite old- fashioned, and yet all the time have a QUITE profound Idea back of them? There's Cubist and Futurist Art, for instance -- one doesn't hear nearly so much about them now, though everyone admitted there was an Idea behind them. Of course, no one knew what the Idea MEANT. But it was stimulating. And why should an Idea have to MEAN anything if it is STIMULATING?