History As The Slaughter-bench

The Life Of God - The Life Which The Mind Apprehends And Enjoys As It Rises To The Absolute Unity Of All Things - May Be Described As A Play Of Love With Itself; But This Idea Sinks To An Edifying Truism, Or Even To A Platitude, When It Does Not Embrace In It The Earnestness, The Pain, The Patience, And Labor, Involved In The Negative Aspect Of Things.

Beauty And Art Pervade All The Business Of Life Like A Kindly Genius, Brightly Adorning Our Surroundings Whether Interior Or Exterior, Mitigating The Seriousness Of Existence And The Complexities Of The Real Life, Extinguishing Idleness In An Entertaining Fashion, And, Where There Is Nothing Good To Be Achieved, Filling The Place Of Vice Better Than Vice Itself.

Education To Independence Demands That Young People Should Be Accustomed Early To Consult Their Own Sense Of Propriety And Their Own Reason. To Regard Study As Mere Receptivity And Memory Work Is To Have A Most Incomplete View Of What Instruction Means.

The Force Of Mind Is Only As Great As Its Expression; Its Depth Only As Deep As Its Power To Expand And Lose Itself.

What Experience And History Teach Is This - That Nations And Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Any Lessons They Might Have Drawn From It. Variant: What Experience And History Teach Is This - That People And Governments Never Have Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deduced From It.