The Proper Method For Hastening The Decay

It Is Probable That There Is No One Thing That It Is Of Eminent Importance For A Child To Learn. The True Object Of Juvenile Education, Is To Provide, Against The Age Of Five And Twenty, A Mind Well Regulated, Active, And Prepared To Learn. Whatever Will Inspire Habits Of Industry And Observation, Will Sufficiently Answer This Purpose.

The Proper Method For Hastening The Decay Of Error, Is Not, By Brute Force, Or By Regulation Which Is One Of The Classes Of Force, To Endeavour To Reduce Men To Intellectual Uniformity; But On The Contrary By Teaching Every Man To Think For Himself.

The Real Or Supposed Rights Of Man Are Of Two Kinds, Active And Passive; The Right In Certain Cases To Do As We List; And The Right We Possess To The Forbearance Or Assistance Of Other Men. The First Of These A Just Philosophy Will Probably Induce Us Universally To Explode.

Whenever Truth Stands In The Mind Unaccompanied By The Evidence Upon Which It Depends, It Cannot Properly Be Said To Be Apprehended At All.

Whenever Government Assumes To Deliver Us From The Trouble Of Thinking For Ourselves, The Only Consequences It Produces Are Those Of Torpor And Imbecility.