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[children] Are Taught That It Is A Virtue To Accept Statements Without Adequate Evidence, Which Leaves Them A Prey To Quacks Of Every Kind In Later Life, And Makes It Very Difficult For Them To Accept The Methods Of Thought Which Are Successful In Science.

We Do Not Know, In Most Cases, How Far Social Failure And Success Are Due To Heredity, And How Far To Environment. But Environment Is The Easier Of The Two To Improve.

The Conservative Has But Little To Fear From The Man Whose Reason Is The Servant Of His Passions, But Let Him Beware Of Him In Whom Reason Has Become The Greatest And Most Terrible Of The Passions. These Are The Wreckers Of Outworn Empires And Civilisations, Doubters, Disintegrators, Deicides.

The Creator Would Appear As Endowed With A Passion For Stars, On The One Hand, And For Beetles On The Other, For The Simple Reason That There Are Nearly 300,000 Species Of Beetle Known, And Perhaps More, As Compared With Somewhat Less Than 9,000 Species Of Birds And A Little Over 10,000 Species Of Mammals.

A Fairly Bright Boy Is Far More Intelligent And Far Better Company Than The Average Adult.