In any social atmosphere good and evil are necessary concomitants.

Sinless men would form a community at best but perishable.

Tolerance, submission, patriotism so called, brotherly love so named--all these things were to come later, as they have ever done in the development of communities, builded mainly upon the foundation of individual aggressiveness and individual centrifugence.
Having arrived, we wave scented kerchiefs between us and the thought of such a beginning of our prosperity.

Having become slaves, we scoff at the thought of a primitive, grand, and happy world, where each man was a master.

Having lost touch of the earth, having lost sight of the sky, we opine there could have been small augur in a land where each man found joy in an earth and sky which to him seemed his own.