The science of life : fully illustrated in tone and line and including many diagrams

BOOK 8

education, under-development, and underemployment of one’s faculties, will be recognized as a cardinal sin. This cowering into ignoble but apparently safe niches in the social fabric, this burial of one’s talent, this refusal to learn and understand and serve and live to the uttermost, this suicide of most of one’s individuality in order to keep the rest of the body alive, is even less tolerable to the new morality than it was,

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in theory, to the old. ‘The world is passing into a new self-conscious phase of economic and social organization, which has little use for acquiescent drudges, and may develop an active impatience with merely consuming parasites and commensals. Modern thought calls to everyone who discerns himself or herself to be cramped and restrained from vigorous self->xpression to struggle out of that net, play a part and live.