G. P. PUTNAM ' S SONS 2 WEST 45!~ STREET

NEW Y OR K

24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND

LONDON

My dear Judge Bartlett:

January 16, 1930

Just returning from Europe I find on my desk a document with your signature, which I grasp as a basis of introduction, from which I venture this note:

Seriously, we have of course friends in common -Mrs. Cooper, and a mutual contact through your daughter. From these several sources I gather that you might be interested in writing a book. Certainly I feel that potentially you must have unusual material for such a volume. Your own professional contacts with this national disease of ours, divorce, doubt less are lit with a vast variety of incident and anecdote, tragic, humorous, and dramatic. And then there_is the great underlying problem itself, with its analysis of statistics, with lessons, observations and conclusions.

I venture this note then to tell you how genuinely interested I find myself in the possibilities. I would like to discuss it with you i nformally by correspondence if you, too, are interested. I think it could be made an extraordinarily worth while project, from the commercial standpoint and from the sugges tion of author and publisher having a hand in creating a really enlightening document, tremendously timely just now.

If it happens that you should have neither the time nor the li terary experience to do the actual writing yourself, I am fortunate in having associated with me my very good friend Fitzhugh Green, who is, I believe, probably the best qualified man in America for collaboration on just this sort of thing. In addition to being extraordinarily competent, and with the experience of brilliant successes, he is an altogether delight-ful per son, with whom you would be glad to have association.

Wont you, then, please let me know- your reac t ions in the premises.

JUdge George A. Bartlett, Reno, Nevada

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- ~ Renn,.America's Divorce Mecca, Seeks $5,000,000 From Broken Marriage~

Refto's two dlvoroe julges are plctur~ above. Left Is Dlstrtc• Jnd~'J'. F. Moran, now In hU 18th year on t-he .bench,, who bas beard thouaancls : of ~. Rlcbt, DIJtrlct Judge Geo• ro )lartWt, shown In his chimben. Tbe picture ~low 1how1 the courtboQe, adjolnlnr the swanky Rlv.-lde hotel where many wealthy UUpnte live -wtrlle e~tabUshlng the nec:etl&!'1 · tbfte.-months realdence.

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f De<:.rees of divorce totaling 2,071 were granted l'l the two judges who presid-ed over the distiict court in [ Washoe County <Reno), Nevada, durlnK 1929. ____ . _ _ ... . ,_

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Dear S:ir ·- -. Mansfield, Ohio.-... · May 5th, 1931·

Of all the poorly educated and misinformed people in our count·ry I think - you take ·the prize. A .B . MacDonald states you are 61 yrs of age. What a waste of years. Your logic sounds more like a chap of 12 or 13· If figures on the result of divorce evils in this counrty do not satify you, kindly get hold of a copy of Edmond Walshts book ff The Last Stand n His are true fi~rea and may

open your lazy eyes abit. Reno w~ll have her day, .but what a rep true historians will give her and her gold diggers, as yourself.

Yours very sincerely,

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SUGGESTIVE QUOTATIONS.

Bevond n l l qu es t i 0 n o ne of the most ~ote n t fa c ~ o r s

in tho o;..d eri n,g of tho tnd i vidual 1 S l _:i_fe (and equally bev nnd questi o ~ ofie of the least reekoned with) i s the rapidity and Co r!i_pl e tenesg wjth wtncil each moment o.:.· ti me fad •::s into oblivion, or else enshrouds itself in an im.pene-trable cocoon of unre <>lity . Failm·e to r·eco [_r;ize t i-: i s is respo nsj :;1.e for mo :r·e harsh judgments of t h o S·=·emi nr, in-co ::siste r:cies n n d untnJstworthine sses of ot ners than any oth er one determini ng cau se. ~'he o ~1tsL~ er, taking.' e. bird 1 s-eve view of s ()IDe c·ne else 1 s sit un t : on in a. panoramic swe e _p over a considero. ··!le p eriod of t ine, f~l j ls t o see how mist hts given way to mist in a series of imperceptible change s, end f1ow the v--ry gra du ~lness of the whole p e rformance gttve to it a false se eming of unity wh ·ch precluded that ~rop Gr

shufflin c. anrl corrcla U ng of t h e parts v; hi ch is indispen-sable for the arri vj. ng at an actual '..Uli ty.

~ .. ~Y JOURN/-~.L.

Whe.t greater th :i ng is there for two hurrmn s ouls than to feel th rt t they are joined for 1 i f" e -- to streng then each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all s01rrow, to m:J.nister to each other in all patn, to be one with each other in silent unspeakabl e memories at the moment of the last parting.

G.E.-- ADAM BEDE .

She had to learn th~ t by e. curious spiritual chemistry the ink virtues of the girl may ·become the faults of the wife.

Anna if: cC. Sholl -- THE LAW O.F' LI FJ:

At twenty-two years of l'tge, a young man fancies that all women are equally tender; he cann6t yet distinguish be-tween heart and passion; he conflJses all in a gem'lral sense of pleasure whi. c h at first seems to inc 1 ude all.

Balzac -- COUNT i .Y DOCTOE .

Hard speech between those who have loved is h j deo1..: s in the rnemor~r, like the sie;ht of grentness end beauty sunk into vice and rags.

G. E.- - R01,1QLJ.....

In courtship, everything is regaded as _t> ; avis ~ onal an d preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accom-plishment is taken to guarantee delightful stor ,;;; s wJ:-, i ch the broa~ leiinre of marriage will reveal.

G.E. l/ I DDL Elv:ERC H.

There is n sort of jealousy ~ : ich needs very ; ittl~ fire; it is harrUy a passion, but a l)1 :ir;ht bred in tt:e clo u dy, . damp nespond ,~ncy of uneasy eeoi sm.

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There c~n be no dis 1)aritv in mEl.rriage like unsnitability of mind anc purpo se. ···

•..••...• forbearance, which is at bot.tom o kind of co ntempt.

SC HOPE :-JHh.UEfi: .

...•• it is a patent fe~t that the course of vir·tue runs entir9ly cou*ter to t hat of ha ppi ness.

SCHOPENHAU2ft .

She perceived :1 0" rmimo.l was "c-he love that burgsii~e (l.

Hardy

Their lives were ruined ••••• by the fundamental error of their mntri monial un ~ on; t hat of hav i ng based a permanent contract on a t r:~'Tl:t:or rTy feeli.ng w ~ ; ch r>nd no necessary con-nection with affini :.ies t hnt alone •ender a l ifelong co mr~~e-ship t o1eretble. -

Ee.rdy :-- JUDE THE O l? SCl !Rr~.

The a~tipathetic, recriminatory mood of the avere i~ e husbarld and wife of Christendom.

H&rdy -- Jude -

A word or a si nr-,le ~ance has the l)Ow er to efface the happine ~ s of whole year s .

Balznc -- QUt:S'T Qj' THE ABSOLUTE

All the sw~etne ss of life is cotnprised nnd has its source in a close~understanding between t~o s ouls.

Balzac -- QU~S~ +-

Love is not merely a sentiment; it is an art.

Balzac -- QU':srr·

•.•• sorrow and sickness of heart at lnst --that's tho ~

end of all love, according to Nature's la,.

Hardy -- W 00 ~)L/diJu7~h S.

Theirs wC>. ~ t.lmt Sl1 "b s tnntial nffoctLm wh: ch arises <if a.rw a.rises a t !!.ll> when i. he t wo who e.1e thrown to c.et hor 'oegin. first by knowine XR~x~xgNtx the rougher sides of eoch Gil other's charact er, ann not the be st till furth er on, the ro-mance growtne; up in the in t erstices of n mass of hard, pro-saic reality. This go od fellow s~ ip -- cemaru derie -- u su-ally occurring through sircil ari. ty of ,pur suJ.ts, is UHfortu-na telv seldofr1.tt supora.d r1ed to love b e tl\'een the sexes, becnwse men a~d wo~en associate, not in their l abors, hut in thetr pleasures merely . Where, however, ha~py circumstance per-mits its nevelop ~:·:ent, the co r:Jpounoe d fe e li !1g _p:c ov ,;s itsiUf to ';e 1 he onl y 1 ove w!-d ch is str on g as de u th -- thc t 1 ove wh ich many waters c annot que nch n. or t h e floods drown; h~stne

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' which the passion usunlly celled by the name is evanescent as a nream.

Hardy -- F.H.H Fnm.:. TEE r,iAD ~J ll,f G C LO'l:D. I I

She drew back, wondering at the idleness of men -- slwes while they wc:nt ~ w:n;)an's love, savuges ,.- hen th<;y h~:we w('n :ft.

In the presence <"f the irresi sti bl e, the con vent L;n~l 1. s a cr~zy structure swept aw~y with very little c , enking of its timbers on t~ flooa.

Meredith -- ThhGIC COMEDIANS.

His c~esire or the wife, the children, the ci tizen• s goor name-- of :h!se our sit:·.ple civilized ambitior•s --was 1ov--

ly of t~ earth, throbbing of earth, and at the s~me t~~e m~:~gni fied beyond scove of speecl·, in va.st images end erohl em~ resembl ins ranees of Olympian cl our:, round the bh•e a 1··C'Ve

earth, all to be necipherable, all utterable, when she wns by.

Mera~ith -- TRAGIC COMEDIANS.

•••.. the only constant attribute in li \ e is ch~nge •... ~~ long as she lives, there is nothin8 f1n 5 ·e in the ~~g~ 1~-

pas ·i " ned atti-:-.ude ft ~>!~"man mt1y t<~ke up. • . • • • In FJ f'~·-·

years her ver"':' fle~h would cb<::nge -- so said tre sci P.'!1ti f'ic; her spirit, so 8UCh more ephemeral, was c 2p~bln ~f ~~~r~•nv

in one.

•••••• hn ~ py, th: ~ t is, in~he ctescending sc <~ le ~P.hJch !'IS · ·~

·11 know Heaven in its wisdom hns ord~ t ned r-or suer: r"~h ce.~es; thg t i.s to say, tho .! irs t we ,; k the:.' w~r'c 1!1 +r'e

seventh Heaven, the sec:.'nd in the sixth, the ~. r.Jr~ "'"'lOY

tempe r ate, x~sfx the fourth reflective, o.nd so ·:n; ~ 1l'.V"'r'~

heart after possession being aomparnble to the earth in its 2,eologtc stages ••.•• first, a hot coal, then o. warm one, then cr,illy -- the strnile shBll be purusen no further."

Hardy - Bt~rbara OF Tl:-:E IIOUS:::: OF Gr:.i.::BES.

Life, and her c le 0r r.ey of J ool\. i ~; g at thi nc, s, ho.d roo ted in t~r a conviction that to a w~ man the p,ec5~usness of her reputation was a f : ction invented by ,:,en ent.L· ely for mali's benefit; a. second h~nd feti.sh iasidiousl.y, i: ,vvitably ::; et up by men fer wors:·:i_p tm novels, plays and law coL<.rts.

\ra.lsworthy P A'l' h I C I /..,N •

He who wished to rea'J. the hearts of th5 s l:usbano e.nC. wii' e •••• wot:l d. h~:ve needed to have w:::.tchod the hun<'lred thousand ht'1..1rs of their wecFed 1 if'e, known :-1nn hu <."1rd th0 n~iJ lion t h our.hts an~l worrls thourht and spoken in the ct :m spaces of th e ir world, to have been cogni~ent of the million re8sons why they :ixxx neither of ;,hem felt th <?. t thsy co'_) lr'l hBve t1'1ne other th~n the~,r he.0. dc-ne.

Gal swor thy -- FBATER r.:ITY.

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••••• the anger of in~efinable offences.

Wells -- TONO BUNGAY.

•••• d esire which fills the universe b~fore its satisfaction vanishes utterly, 11ke the going of daylight, with achievememt

Wells - TONO BUNftAY.

••••• this way in wh ch men and women make audi -- nces for one c.1nother i s n C1J.ri.01.;tJy influGntial fo r ce in tlv::ir li.vas.

Wells TONO BU NGE¥.

• ••• love js a hysterical ~JtSXliK :passion; now high, :tow low, now exalteo, and now intensely :phy stcal. Ho o ne has eve r 1 yet dar~d to tell a l~ ve story completely -- its alternatives, ! its com1ngs and goings, its debAsed mome nts, its hate. I

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••• the pow~r an~ beau ty o f the lov2 of man and mman, and how ita it :c.ust needs frame a j ustifiable vtsion of the or-oere '.~- worl c. Love has br o r! ght me to ni sas t er, becnu s~my x• cereer had been planned re gardless of its possibility and lCJi.• vs.l ue.

Wells -- NE'W WiACHIAVELLI.

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i A people thq t will not valiantly face and understand and admit ) love and pt1S s ion can unner s tand not!1 i n;:., ~·: r1etever. 1

Wells -- NEW MAC HIAVELLI.

One of tre gr ea t barriers to hunmn unders :.andin2, is the wine temperamental differ ence one finds in th VCJ 1 u es of th i Hgs relating to sex. It is t he issue u_pon wh; ch peo_ple most nee cl tre.thi ng in charity and imagi native sympathy. Here are no u nivn~ s a l stan~ards at all, and inde qn ~on no sl ngle m~n nor ~ oman do e s there seem to be any fixed standard, so much do the a c cidents c:f circt1mstances aw one's phy sical phases affect one's interpretations. There is nothjng in . the wh."1 le range of sextlal fact that may not seem supreme i y beautiful or human1y 5oll y or magnificentl y wicked or dis-gusti.ng or tr i vial or u -;.. t erl y insignificant, accor d ing to the eve that se e s Or ·the mood that colors. Here is S ;Hnet :~ ing that ~ay fill the skies and ever y waking h our, or be al ~ osf corr:pletely banished frorr, a 1 i fe. It may kxx be everythi~ on Monnay , and less than ~1 o tt . i ng on Saturday. And we make our XKxsaxKxxxk laws and rules as though in the se ma t ter s all men and wome1 were commensura ble one with another, with an equal steadfast ..Pas ~ ion nno an equnl constant du ty.

Wells -- NEW M/,C ll lA'iELLI.

It s ·.: erns to me th8.t l: er- e I ha\' C to toll .PCr ha J;·S tt .e com-mon : st experierc e of all among t:J ro-ried e oucuted _peo,1J le -- the deliberate, shy , c~mpl c x effort to fill t~yawnin g geps in tel!lperament as t hey a .:,· pertr; the Sllstained, failing attem_pt ., tc bridg e abysses, l ~vel barriers, evade 7iolent ~· essures.

I have come these latter :.rears of my J j fe t :J beli eve thflt it is possible for aJOa a man and woman to xx:xxJI be ebsolutcly real w:i. t h one anoth er , to stand naked so uled to each other , unas h amed l'lnd unafraid, becau ~-:: e of t. hh natur a l ell- e;lori f'y i ng love b e tw e en t hem. • ••••• But it is a rare and intr)c o. te' chance t hat bring s two people wi thi n si ght of that ess enti a l

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-5-union, and for XNKU the rna.jori ty marriage self on other terms.

must adjust it-

Given love given rm1tuality -- and (me has effe e; ted a su.r-reme synthesis ad come to a new level of life.

Wells -- N:SW MACHIA',ELLI.

Couln it b\3 voss1ble that human persons were ::ubject to the spells of ,;;:ersons with tastes, aims, .Practices, .P1 ' rSi.Jits alien to t heirs~ It was a riddle taxing her to solve it for the resistance to a mcnstr· o~s iniquity -of injustice.

Mere d ith -- CELT Aim SA..XON.

•••• the certaj nty that _personal lo ve is lLe' s L.l c;hest value.

~;; 11en Key -- LOV'.C: AND ll"h. HLI.tiGB.

•••• love is absor}?ticn into that spirit in whic~· 1 c. ne's own fj_nds its foot h olr'J. wi t h ol..l.t lo.f!Ssi ng its fr ,~ e,~om; the nearness of that heart which stills the disqnie t j n ou.r ow1 ; thnt at-tenti ve ear wm ch c ntches wll!l t is uns:p,ken and unspeo.ko"ole; the clear sight of those eyes wOi ch S'"' e the realiz Btion of our best possibili t ies; the to uch of those hands wh 1ch, dvi ::g , we woul ,~ feel clo ~.:; ed ~J.-ron ou r own.

•••• the only love w'rli ch lasts for life -- that of J.. . no~P.le ·~f.; e and compzehension.

Ell en Key -- LOVE AND MARrU.SG E.

Sl-e felt 1 n tensely, as every :numo.n henrt feels some ti tr.es, that the satisfactto n s of duty were chimerical, and that the onl~ ' all thenti c bl i ~s was t o be fo u nd in a w:i l d und t.;_ t ter abarv'l.~nment to instinct. No matter whut the cost of rupture, in self-respect or in remorse, it ~as worth the cost.

Benne t t -- L l'~~ONORA.

A strange h8 ~hazArd th~ng ~ns lo ve -- so spun b~tween ec-stacy an~ torture~ A thing insidiou s, irresponsible, desperate. A flyin g sweetness, mo ~ e poi gnRnt than anything on earth, more dark in ori gin an~ dest i ny. A thing without reason or coherence. A man's love life-- what say had he in siltxll!!'sxlnr~ the ebb and flow of it'?

Gnlsworthy DARK FLO'.VEi, .

As if think ing wer e any r;ood for fev er in the ve t ns~

Gals1·orthy -- Dc.rk FLOWE:~ .

••• he had a feeling that, si nce he alone 1: new all t he cir-cumstance ~ of his case, he alone was entitled to blame or excu se hi mso lf. 'I'he c,l i b jw'lgnm ts that :norol i sts would

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pass upon hj s co n~uct could be no tlnng but the irr.becili tiES of smuG and pharisaic fools -- of those not under this drugging spell -- of such ns had not blood enough, perhaps, ever to fall beneuth it!

r:.orf\1 l aw · .. wlitcr·l is SUD.i)Osed to ue reve<:~ led to us; is drawn fxa.ao in re8li t y from the grossest e rrrp iricism. Custo;m alone regnl at 8 S morals. W'rr; t Heaven pr c scri bes is ;ne1 el·.· the c0 nsecra ti on of ancient Ct'_s to ms. The divine lnw, pro!!lulga ted a mid fireworks on s orne lV. ount 51 nai, is nev e r 8 1 lytl'~ing but t11'3 corHficc:..ti0n of human prejt.~dice.

Fllanc c -- REVOLT OF 'I'H:6 Am-;ELSa

Reason is the slave of ..~:- assiC'In.

Dostoeffs1<~y -- C LH·::~; AND PUNlSHlv:ENT.

But the trouble with platonic love is thut it's abays t·_:rnine O'l..' t too nice to be _platonic, or too _platonic to be n i ce.

S tr :! Y¥:; er -- THE PRAihlE 'N L: E.

For this, in~eed, is tho truth of passionate lo ve, that it wor·ks ;kjnudci out its purpose and comes to an KKlK end. A day arrives in ev""ry rnarriaYe when tho lovers must face each other, disill u sioned, ::tripped of the l~st shred of excite-ment -- und iseuisedly themselves.

WeJ.ls -- Iv1ARRIAGE.

Marria .· e i sn• t wh~t it was. It's becor~1e a di f'fercnt thing, because w~men have become human be5ngs.

Wells -- i·/ AWUAG:S.

•••• the queer feel ine; :tJuc:kxK~m«Kx:t•xalcix~x which comes to all husbands c-I1d wives at times -- tho t tho t other j.'lartner is ir.<i ; ed an undiscovered. stranger, just beginning to sh0w _per-plexing t rai bs --full of inconc :~ivable _possibilities.

Wells -- I:lAEi ~ l.hG::.

Perhaps men only begin to love when they cen~e :o be dazzled and adr!ijre,

Wells -- EI·:S::.!:ARCE MAGNIFIC :~NT.

-----------There can be no inequality in lov o . Give and tDke must balance. One must be one's nnturnl self or the whole business is an i n~e cent trick, n vile use of life~ To use inferiors in love one must nceus talk down to the~ , im:. erpret oneself in their insu f fi cient phrases, preteno.::, sentiment~lize. And it is clear that unless oneself is to be 1 ost, one must be con tent to 1 eave alone all t1'1ose peo_ple that one can re o. ch onl y by sentlmental:izl ng.

Wells •- RESEARCH W:AGN IFICE NT .

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One cannot s erve at on ce the intricncies of t he wider issv.es of life a n ~ the intricacj_e s of another human b c j ng.

WelJ.s -- HESEAHC:ri. WlAGNIFICEN1'

He was alway~ th:i nJing ir. h' s 1n ·iv a 1e consci en ce thc.t 1ife was somehow bigser ani subtler and dar1er than any g iven theory or ord er of li.ving. It m: gr.t well be worth while for a man or .,. _. orne n to 'be honest and moral wi th1 n a r; i ven con rHt i on or Q'.w l ity of soc:ls ty, but it did n0 t rna tter at all in the ultimr1te substance and composition of tre universe.

Dreiser -- THE G NI US .

After all, it se sms to me that all yo~ c an do in 111·e is to s1 1ff·er what :·011've r,0 t to, and to enjo ? whEJt y ou Ct-ln."

W.LCeorge SJi;C ml D DLOO~.:J::·J G.

'Because one's nctl nns hurt other people, it :loesn't _pr ove that they are wro~g •.....• Every i mportant step one takas is bo ~_md to rHstrcss somebody •••••• Anyone who puts the peace of hi s family befo~e everyt h in p has to renounce the l:ife of j ,~ eRs complete ~y .

Chekhov -- NEIGHBOHS.

So long as Ure's f'l;_Jl, 5.t. doe sn't r:!attor whether it's hapry or n~t •••••• S : long as you do n 't f~el life 's p0l try ~ n(1 a mi sera 'ole b;_~ si ·~ess, the: r e st doesn't i;.at tcr, hnpp1 ne sn or 1.mhap_pi ness.

D. ~.; .Lawre nce

It wn s :.he friend ship o1· her, beinc; F.l i.. irl, thnt he lon ,':';cd for: a frlendshi p p hys ically involued, but not physically nomin~ted.

... e coul d not help-aggrily fceli :JC that it wss not rir;ht to put the enormo1.1s st.rr-:.tn of constant famn i~r:l. ty upon ~ny affection, any passjnn •

Wi lk j nson -- A C;;;.~,::;'_~·~; I-.li:,N •

I don't know WHAT I feel! •.• 'N!;at' s the use of wo nr!eri ng wh~t you feel an:-1 wy :;i O\.. fe ~: l it? That isn't impor-tant; the i~portant t hi ng is to go str~ight -- on ~

Wilkinson-- A Cl-!AS'T': I//'.!·i .

. . . . the peculiar grossness of moral peoJ,:-le.

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•••• the strain on him of her personality ••• was like a thin tight ribbon alwe.ys bound to h is forehead. There v.-as notiiing in r~·luriel for mere;ing, nothing for healj ng.

W h n. t • ~ i t a 11 abo , · t ? J\ 1 ~ t h ~ s c n n t p o o .lJ 1 e t sl k ! '1'J e ' r e here for fifty o:r sixty years -- bc ,,ga.rl y snatch -- and we g o :pj cki ng oilr wa~.' be twe o n t h-3 j oL1s of the liCtVi n g stones un r: er our f e et all tho tirr:e -- like a lot of dn!!!n neeenerate pnro-notcs! We 0'1 <Sht to walk with a fre e std de ! What do th ose o1vicling l:i r,,s mean? ••• Nothi.nr; at ell -- accidents --arbitrary --

Wilkln s on -- A CHASTT~ !-' AN.

There was in him a gnawing desire for change, as change; a distinct fear of being _pinned for t•o long to the same spot; or to ,_ ut it ano .her wn y , a c onviction that to live on without change meu nt d .cay . For him, at l east.

H.E.Richardson

He cou l d n~t see, it w~s not born in him to s ~e , th&t the highest .::: ood of t <c co H;muni ty u s it stan::.s i. s J:o lo ne:; .r tr:e 1-:iDl:.est r,o c:d. of even the av ·.=;~ age :i :l diqidusl. E '; tho ut)'lt t.hot, boc ;c• u -~ e tr1e co mrnu _i ty represen t s millions of .!.J 80 .1;le, therefo:·· e i t -rm:,t b8 mjllions 'J f tL'.fl S :nor·e irnportont then , any inr<ividw3.1, for{!.ctting that t ho co::.mu i; ity ts , an absLacticn j from the rnp,ny, and is ' ,ot the many themselves. 1~ow \'i rL: n the st atement of tr'e a bstr::: ct go od for tl _e com~u.:i t:" has oeco n:e i ~l !'orm:.l1a l~ckinp.; in all insl,)i.t·ati0n or vaL1e to tbe e.vern,r:e I 1.ntelll e;ence, then the "common good-" becom:: s a f,en -:re.l nui: I'

sance, r epresen1 i · p: the vulgar, C\)YJServotive materiE"tU.srn at . a low levP.l!'

D.E.Lawr~nce

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Tur Fenev -- "HEMOiltS OF A. ~;POHTSh:AN. ~'

Thus I seemed to learn life's les ~~on as I lJnrned to walk: that what you love will nnt last lor:g, and thflt lo ;,g lovo is pa:; si ble o!1ly when yr:. :c love often.

J.L. All e n

As we fo 11 O'r. the differ-ent _pa thwnys 0 f C'.... r 1 i v e s wnch op_pe :~r to leeo towarr'l u nfaithfulness to · .. ne anot ner, may it not be true that to the Power which s ets us all in motion on~ drives us wh J ther it will, ell o~r lives are the Emble ms of Fidel 5. t :r ~

J. L .All en -- :::riiBLEMS OF FID.i~Ll T":{.

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