8 APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS 



real gentleman, or lady, as distinguished from the 

 veneered article which commonly goes by that 

 name. 



The higher the state of civilisation, the more 

 completely do the actions of one member of the 

 social body influence all the rest, and the less 

 possible is it for any one man to do a wrong thing 

 without interfering, more or less, with the freedom 

 of all his fellow-citizens. 



I take it that the good of mankind means the 

 attainment, by every man, of all the happiness 

 which he can enjoy without diminishing the happi- 

 ness of his fellow men. 



Education promotes peace by teaching men the 

 realities of life and the obligations which are 

 involved in the very existence of society ; it promotes 

 intellectual development, not only by training the 

 individual intellect, but by sifting out from the 

 masses of ordinary or inferior capacities, those 

 who are competent to increase the general wel- 

 fare by occupying higher positions ; and, lastly, 

 it promotes morality and refinement, by teaching 

 men to discipline themselves, and by leading them 

 to see that the highest, as it is the only permanent, 

 content is to be attained, not by grovelling in the 

 rank and steaming valleys of sense, but by continual 

 striving towards those high peaks, where, resting 

 in eternal calm, reason discerns the undefined but 

 bright ideal of the highest Good "a cloud by day, 

 a pillar of fire by night," 



