The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?
