Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Grizzly Bear, Vol. 22: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to All California; November, 1917 Good that people do, and would naturally think that everybody is good. That influence on their minds would be a powerful factor towards keep ing them good. Should they then hear, on the streets, of a crime, their innocent sensibilities would be shocked, whereas, at -the present time, they see crime, hear of it and read of it on all sides, and seem to think nothing of it, as they believe every body is bad anyway. And to do wrong themselves does not seem to be very unusual, and thereby the way is made easy to commit crime. It is here the story of the baby boy, not afraid of the dark, comes in. In his uncontaminated mind, he knew no fear, as up to that time he had not known it. So it is with regard to vice and crime, if people could be reared in blissful ignorance of them, they would soon disappear. With education along the right lines, laws would be less and less necessary. Thoughtfulness and conscientiousness would gradually force out selfishness, and people would devote their lives to the making of living easy for the other fellow, instead of, as at present, making it harder. Thus we see that the unrest in the world today has-been caused by man himself. The selfish man has been merged into selfish men, and selfish men into nations. And with the ghastly world-war destroying Europe today, is it any wonder that people are clamoring for reforms? But, the great est reform needed in the world today is that of the human mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.