The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.


Heretics (ed. 1909)


The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at...

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at...

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at...

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at...