150 APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS 



cccxv 

 It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than 

 to go right in chains. 



cccxvi 



A good book is comparable to a piece of meat, and 

 fools are as flies who swarm to it, each for the 

 purpose of depositing and hatching his own particular 

 maggot of an idea. 



CCCXVI I 



Children work a greater metamorphosis in men 

 than any other condition of life. They ripen one 

 wonderfully and make life ten times better worth 

 having than it was. 



CCCXVIII 



Teach a child what is wise, that is vwralily. 

 Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is 

 religion ! 



CCCXIX 



People may talk about intellectual teaching, but 

 what we principally want is the moral teaching. 



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We are in the midst of a gigantic movement greater 

 than that which preceded and produced the Reforma- 

 tion, and really only the continuation of that move- 

 ment. But there is nothing new in the ideas which 

 lie at the bottom of the movement, nor is any recon- 

 cilement possible between free thought and traditional 

 authority. One or other will have to succumb after 

 a struggle of unknown duration, which will have as 



