Triumph of Principles
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his […]
Health as a Custom
When we follow a custom or engage in customary behavior we’re adopting the practices of a specific time and place. A custom is both a natural development of what has come before as well as an arbitrarily decided way of organizing society. Dress, manners, etiquette—these are common customs, and each country adopts their own particular […]
