Scientific Thought, Then, Is Not Momentary; It

When You Teach A Child Something You Take Away Forever His Chance Of Discovering It For Himself.

There Is Little Mysticism Without An Element Of Transcendence, And Conversely, There Is No Transcendence Without A Certain Degree Of Egocentrism. It May Be That The Genesis Of These Experiences Is To Be Sought In The Unique Situation Of The Very Young Child In Relation To Adults. The Theory Of The Filial Origin Of The Religious Sense Seems To Us Singularly Convincing In This Connection.

The Majority Of Parents Are Poor Psychologists And Give Their Children The Most Questionable Moral Trainings. It Is Perhaps In This Domain That One Realized Most How Keenly How Immoral It Can Be To Believe Too Much In Morality, And How Much More Precious Is A Little Humanity Than All The Rules In The World.

The Need To Speak The Truth And Even To Seek It For Oneself Is Only Conceivable In So Far As The Individual Thinks And Acts As One Of A Society, And Not Of Any Society (for It Is Just The Constraining Relations Between Superior And Inferior That Often Drive The Latter To Prevarication) But Of A Society Founded On Reciprocity And Mutual Respect, And Therefore On Cooperation.

Before Games Are Played In Common, No Rules In The Proper Sense Can Come Into Existence. Regularities And Ritualized Schemas Are Already There, But These Rites, Being The Work Of The Individual, Cannot Call Forth That Submission To Something Superior To The Self Which Characterizes The Appearance Of Any Rule.