Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break. . . It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.