East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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(jr actuate A ' 6 7 though the customs be both good as customs, and suitable to him, yet to conform to custom, merely as custom, does not educate or develop in him any of the qualities which are the instinctive en- dowment of a human being. The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preferences are exercised only in making a choice ... He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the apelike one of imitation. John Stuart Mill On Liberty —19—

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It is the privilege and proper condition of a human being, arrived at the maturity of his facul- ties, to use and interpret experience in his own way . . . The traditions and customs of other people are, to a certain extent, evidence of what their experience has taught them; presumptive evidence, and as such, have a claim to his defer- ence: but in the first place, their experience may be too narrow; or they may not have interpreted it rightly. Secondly, their interpretation of exper- ience may be correct, but unsuitable to him. Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters; and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary. Thirdly, -18-

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CYNTHIA BURGI I I CHARLES HARLOW JOHN ROGERSON 1st Vice-President CYNTHIA WHEELER 20—