Of Two Evils We Take The Less.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved With Authority, Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance; Whereby It Cometh To Pass That Having Learned Men In Admiration, They Rather Fear To Dislike Them Than Know Wherefore They Should Allow And Follow Their Judgments. Contrariwise With Them That Are Skilful Authority Is Much More Strong And Forcible; Because They Only Are Able To Discern How Just Cause There Is Why To Some Men's Authority So Much Should Be Attributed.

Even Ministers Of Good Things Are Like Torches, A Light To Others, Waste And Destruction To Themselves.

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved By Authority Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance

For Men To Be Tied And Led By Authority, As It Were With A Kind Of Captivity Of Judgment, And Though There Be Reason To The Contrary Not To Listen Unto It, But To Follow Like Beasts The First In The Herd, They Know Not, Nor Care Not Whither, This Were Brutish.

Think Of Your Child, Then, Not As Dead, But As Living; Not As A Flower That Has Withered, But As One That Is Transplanted, And Touched By A Divine Hand, Is Blooming In Richer Colors And Sweeter Shades Than Those Of Earth.