Advice Would Be More Acceptable If It

The Power Of Authority Is Never More Subtle And Effective Than When It Produces A Psychological Atmosphere Or Climate Favorable To The Life Of Certain Modes Of Belief, Unfavorable, And Even Fatal, To The Life Of Others.

But Science Is The Great Instrument Of Social Change, All The Greater Because Its Object Is Not Change But Knowledge, And Its Silent Appropriation Of This Dominant Function, Amid The Din Of Political And Religious Strife, Is The Most Vital Of All The Revolutions Which Have Marked The Development Of Modern Civilisation.

In Politics Nothing Matters Very Much, And Few Things Matter At All.

Kant, As We All Know, Compared Moral Law To The Starry Heavens, And Found Them Both Sublime. On The Naturalistic Hypothesis We Should Rather Compare It To The Protective Blotches On A Beetle's Back, And Find Them Both Ingenious.

I Have Done Nothing Important Or Distinguished Since We Met Except To Win The Handicap Prize, Worth ?4 10/- At North Berwick.