ABSTRACT
The popular notion of learning to speak is that the child first has the idea and then gets from others a sound to use in communicating it; but a closer study shows this is hardly true even of the simplest ideas, and is nearly the reverse of truth as regards developed thought. Within the constraining bounds of normal social intercourse, moral regulation, and the wider dimensions of personal affection and consideration sexual appetite is governed. Even youthful relationships only just begun can be destructively interrupted before they have even had the opportunity to come to fulfilment. Also, inequalities of income have been reduced by more equitable taxation, minimum standards of income have been established, and many social services have been provided, to approximate as far as possible to the ethical ideal of citizenship in which all are fittingly rewarded for the contribution which they make, and in which civilized standards are maintained for the less fortunate.
