There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.