The constant aim of men in talking to each other, in writing for newspapers, even in writing novels, should be to arouse discontent.
In this column, as our readers will have noticed, the constant aim is to make the great crowd dissatisfied.
Only through discontent can changes come and are there not causes enough for discontent and need enough for changes?
A majority of the people half educated, and tens of thousands half fed.
Children run over daily because they have no playground but the gutter.
Men of noble aspirations kept down by hard work and poverty.
Children left locked up alone all day while their mothers work for a pittance.
Men, uncertain of their future and of their children's future, engage in a constant struggle for wealth that is not needed—a struggle that develops in the end a passion as useless as it is degrading.
Unless you believe that the world is perfect because YOU happen to have enough to eat and to wear, you should be discontented.
You should remember that the world's achievements and great changes have all come from discontent, and you should be, in as many ways as possible, a breeder of discontent among the human beings around you.