"Because of fathers' sins the cost
Is counted in the children's blood;
They starve where once they might have stood
Content and strong as bird or bee."--H.H.
"The primary function of social science is to interpret men's
experience in passing from stage to stage in the evolution of
human values."--ALBION W. SMALL.
"Every wrong-doer should have his due. But what is his due? Can we
measure it by his past alone, or is it due any one to regard him
as a man having a future as well? As having possibilities for good
as well as achievements in bad?"--JOHN DEWEY.
"Judge not, that ye be not judged. He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone."--JESUS.
"The Sage is ever the good Saviour of men; he rejects none. For
the good men are the instructors of other good men and the bad men
are the material for the good men to work upon. The good I would
meet with goodness, the not-good I would meet with goodness
also."--LAO-TSZE.
"The good man is apt to go right about pleasure and the bad man is
apt to go wrong. It is only to the good man that the good presents
itself as good, for vice perverts us and causes us to err about
the principle of action."--ARISTOTLE.
"I cannot but think that the extreme passion for getting rich,
absorbing all the energies of life, predisposes to mental
degeneracy, to moral defects, or to outbreaks of insanity in the
offspring."--MAUDESLEY.
"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or out of it which
can be called good without qualification except a Good
Will."--KANT.
"The object of moral principles is to supply standpoints and
methods which will enable the individual to make for himself an
analysis of the elements of good and evil in the particular
situation in which he finds himself,"--JOHN DEWEY.
"I call that mind free which resists the bondage of habit, which
does not live on its old virtues, which does not enslave itself to
precise rules, but which forgets what is behind, listens for new
and higher monitions of conscience, and rejoices to pour itself
forth in fresh and higher exertions."--CHANNING.
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