Evil Is Often Supposed To Be Without

There Is No Way In Which We Can Retrospectively Erase The Treaty Of Vienna Or The Great Irish Famine. It Is A Peculiar Feature Of Human Actions That, Once Performed, They Can Never Be Recuperated. What Is True Of The Past Will Always Be True Of It.

All Desire Springs From A Lack, Which It Strives Continually To Fill.

God Chose What Is Weakest In The World To Shame The Strong.

What Persuades Men And Women To Mistake Each Other From Time To Time For Gods Or Vermin Is Ideology. One Can Understand Well Enough How Human Beings May Struggle And Murder For Good Material Reasons - Reasons Connected, For Instance, With Their Physical Survival. It Is Much Harder To Grasp How They May Come To Do So In The Name Of Something As Apparently Abstract As Ideas. Yet Ideas Are What Men And Women Live By, And Will Occasionally Die For.

Rousseau Ranks Among The Great Educational Theorists Of The Modern Era, Even If He Was The Last Man To Put In Charge Of A Classroom. Young Adults, He Thought, Should Be Allowed To Develop Their Capabilities In Their Distinctive Way.