One of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. “We look before and after And pine for what is not.” This natural tendency to hope, desire, foresee and then, if po...

On a gray, cold, soggy Tibetan plateau stood glaring at one another two white people⁠—a man and a woman. With the first, a group of peasants; with the second, the guides and carriers of a well-equippe...

The day after tomorrow! I was to see it the day after tomorrow⁠—this strange, new, abhorrent world! The more I considered what bits of information I had gleaned already, the more I disliked what lay b...

The blue shore line of one’s own land always brings a thrill of the heart; to me, buried exile as I had been, the heart-leap was choking. Ours was a slow steamer, and we did not stop at Montauk where ...

They called me to supper. “Most of us have our heartiest meal in the middle of the day,” my sister said. “The average man, O Victim of Copious Instruction,” added my brother-in-law, “does his work in ...

While below they took me into the patio, that quiet inner garden which was so attractive from above. It was a lovely place. The moon was riding high and shone down into it; a slender fountain spray ro...

Out of the mass of information offered by my new family and the pleasant friends we met, together with the books and publications profusely piling around me, I felt it necessary to make a species of d...

The country was as astonishing to me as the city⁠—its old beauty added to in every direction. They took me about in motor cars, motor boats and air ships, on foot and on horseback (the only horses now...

After all, it takes time for a great change in world-thought to strike in. That’s what Owen insisted on calling it. He maintained that the amazing uprush of these thirty years was really due to the wh...

I learned to understand the immense material prosperity of the country much more easily than its social progress. The exquisite agriculture which made millions of acres from raw farms and ranches into...

It was this new growth of humanity which made continuing social progress so rapid and so sure. These young minds had no rubbish in them. They had a vivid sense of the world as a whole, quite beyond th...

Dr. Borderson, it seemed, held the chair in Ethics at the university. I knew a Borderson once and was very fond of him. Poor Frank! If he was alive he would have more likely reached a prison or a hosp...

More and more I cut loose from the explanatory guiding strings of my sister and the family, even from the requested information of specialists, and wandered by myself in search of the widening daily a...