APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS ii 



XLIX 



Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a 

 time to take one's own way at all hazards. 



Individualism, pushed to anarchy, in the family is 

 as ill-founded theoretically and as mischievous practi- 

 cally as it is in the State ; while extreme regiment- 

 ation is a certain means of either destroying self- 

 reliance or of maddening to rebellion. 



Ll 



A man in his development runs for a little while 

 parallel with, though never passing through, the 

 form of the meanest worm, then travels for a space 

 beside the fish, then journeys along with the bird and 

 the reptile for his fellow travellers ; and only at last, 

 after a brief companionship with the highest of the 

 four-footed and four-handed world, rises into the 

 dignity of pure manhood. 



LII 



Not only does every animal live at the expense of 

 some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at 



war The individuals of a species are like the 



crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swim- 

 mers have a chance of reaching the land. 



LIII 



When we know that living things are formed 

 of the same elements as the inorganic world, that 

 they act and react upon it, bound by a thousand ties 



