Man Loves Most That Which Is His

Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle Not Of Men But Of Forces. The Men Become Every Year More And More Creatures Of Force, Massed About Central Powerhouses. The Conflict Is No Longer Between The Men, But Between The Motors That Drive The Men, And The Men Tend To Succumb To Their Own Motive Forces.

Throughout Human History The Waste Of Mind Has Been Appalling, And, As This Story Is Meant To Show, Society Has Conspired To Promote It. No Doubt The Teacher Is The Worst Criminal, But The World Stands Behind Him And Drags The Student From His Course.

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.

History Is Only A Catalogue Of The Forgotten.

Education Should Try To Lessen The Obstacles, Diminish The Friction, Invigorate The Energy, And Should Train Minds To React, Not At Haphazard, But By Choice, On The Lines Of Force That Attract Their World. What One Knows Is, In Youth, Of Little Moment; They Know Enough Who Know How To Learn.