If there is to be a new world, built on sane and stable foundations, then everywhere men and women must be found no longer willing to submit unresistingly, unintelligently, to the ruling of their thoughts and lives by others.
The adventurous curiosity and thirst of youth for independence may provide many pitfalls, but it can be advantageously directed. On the other hand, he who because of disillusionment, apathy, prejudice, or timidity, subscribes to a viewpoint or submits to a doctrine he does not genuinely accept or really understand, loses after a time even the ability to think for himself.
Neatly and without exaggeration does the humorist in the following verse place on record an impression of those among whom he dwells:
