This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.