title: A Proust Questionnaire: Discover Your Truest Self--in 30 Simple Questions
author: Joanna Neborsky
description: <b>Joanna Neborsky</b> is an illustrator and animator whose work has appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Travel + Leisure</i>, and other national publications. This is her second book.
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  A Point in Morals  
    
  
  
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  # A Point in Morals
  
  
  ### Ellen Glasgow
  
  
  
  
  
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  "THE question seems to be — " began the Englishman. He looked up and bowed to
  a girl in a yachting-cap who had just come in from deck and was taking the
  seat beside him. "The question seems to be — " The girl was having some
  difficulty in removing her coat, and he turned to assist her.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "In my opinion," broke in a well-known alienist on his way to a convention in
  Vienna, "the question is simply whether or not civilization, in placing an
  exorbitant value upon human life, is defeating its own aims." He leaned
  forward authoritatively, and spoke with a half-foreign precision of accent.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "You mean that the survival of the fittest is checkmated," remarked a young
  journalist travelling in the interest 