'I am a man who has followed a science, but I have followed it in wild places, and I have gone through it and come out at the other side.

The world, as I see it, had become too easy and cushioned.

Men had forgotten their manhood in soft speech, and imagined that the rules of their smug civilization were the laws of the universe.

But that is not the teaching of science, and it is not the teaching of life.

We have forgotten the greater virtues, and we were becoming emasculated humbugs whose gods were our own weaknesses.