Bacon's Not The Only Thing That's Cured

A Charlatan Makes Obscure What Is Clear; A Thinker Makes Clear What Is Obscure.

There Are Dons Who Care For The Intellect And The Imagination, And There Are Priests Who Care For The Spirit; But Broadly Speaking The Function Of Universities And Churches Alike Is To Trim And Tame Enthusiasm, To Suppress Curiosity, And, In Short, To Whittle Immortal Souls Into Serviceable Props Of The Established Order.

It Is Difficult To Love Mankind Unless One Has A Reasonable Private Income, And When One Has A Reasonable Private Income One Has Better Things To Do Than Loving Mankind.

A Concern With The Perfectibility Of Mankind Is Always A Symptom Of Thwarted Or Perverted Development.

Bacon's Not The Only Thing That's Cured By Hanging From A String.