For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Government is essentially immoral.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.