Sensing victory, the pro-circ enthusiasts gleefully chirped it meant that “circumcised men have more fun,” are more creative, and have a more expansive libido.

After the lively monoped was settled, Nurse and a big Prussian who spoke no English noticed the echo of a sob from a twelve-year-old drummer boy who was having a nightmare.

My friends would come from de States and say, 'Dey don't work sciences abroad.' But in Haiti dey use dis ting called sosumba to work science. And in Jamaica we eat sosumba! Dey call it gully beans. It grows out on a tree, ...

Everywhere the picture is one of mingled evil and good: insensitive men amassing wealth ruthlessly, idle women driving them on climbingly; rich men giving handsomely, beautifying cities, endowing research, financing medicine and opening new schools; instalment stimulating employment and intensifying ruin;[…]: how shall we ever generalize in the face of such obstinately individual facts? how shall we ever come to any simple conclusions?