American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system and set up for no other...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
