Bk. 2, Ch. "Let's All Be Different Same As Me"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
“Men are polished, through act and speech,
Each by each,
As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.”
A Home Idyl.
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American author 1827–1916Related quotes

“Men and women whisper to each other because they have turned a sacred gesture into a sinful act.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 56.

“Ordinarily we communicate intelligence to each other by speech.”
Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897)
Context: Ordinarily we communicate intelligence to each other by speech. I first call up in my own brain a picture of a scene I wish to describe, and then, by means of an orderly transmission of wave vibrations set in motion by my vocal chords through the material atmosphere, a corresponding picture is implanted in the brain of anyone whose ear is capable of receiving such vibrations. If the scene I wish to impress on the brain of the recipient is of a complicated character, or if the picture of it in my own brain is not definite, the transmission will be more or less imperfect; but if I wish to get my audience to picture to themselves some very simple object, such as a triangle or a circle, the transmission of ideas will be well-nigh perfect, and equally clear to the brains of both transmitter and recipient. Here we use the vibrations of the material molecules of the atmosphere to transmit intelligence from one brain to another.

“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
L 70
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)

Church News http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3273-2,00.html|, speaking at the November 6 Church Educational System fireside.