Being An Only Child Is A Disease

Man Is Largely A Creature Of Habit, And Many Of His Activities Are More Or Less Automatic Reflexes From The Stimuli Of His Environment.

There Is No More Wild, Free, Vigorous Growth Of The Forest, But Everything Is In Pots Or Rows Like A Rococo Garden... The Pupil Is In The Age Of Spontaneous Variation Which At No Period Of Life Is So Great. He Does Not Want A Standardized, Overpeptonized Mental Diet. It Palls On His Appetite.

This Splendid Subject [mathematics], Queen Of All Exact Sciences, And The Ideal And Norm Of All Careful Thinking.

Adolescence As The Time When An Individual ‘recapitulates’ The Savage Stage Of The Race’s Past.

Civilization Is So Hard On The Body That Some Have Called It A Disease, Despite The Arts That Keep Puny Bodies Alive To A Greater Average Age, And Our Greater Protection From Contagious And Germ Diseases.