30. If Will Stops And Cries Why,

If One Had To Worry About One's Actions In Respect Of Other People's Ideas, One Might As Well Be Buried Alive In An Antheap Or Married To An Ambitious Violinist. Whether That Man Is The Prime Minister, Modifying His Opinions To Catch Votes, Or A Bourgeois In Terror Lest Some Harmless Act Should Be Misunderstood And Outrage Some Petty Convention, That Man Is An Inferior Man And I Do Not Want To Have Anything To Do With Him Any More Than I Want To Eat Canned Salmon.

Magick Is The Science Of Understanding Oneself And One's Conditions. It Is The Art Of Applying That Understanding In Action.

Here Again, There Is No Tabulation; For Us It Is Left To Sacrifice Literary Charm, And Even Some Accuracy, In Order To Bring Out The One Great Point. The Cause Of Human Sectarianism Is Not Lack Of Sympathy In Thought, But In Speech; And This It Is Our Not Unambitious Design To Remedy.

Practically, Science Is True; And Faith Is Foolish.

I Am Inclined To Agree With The Head Master Of Eton That Pæderastic Passions Among Schoolboys 'do No Harm'; Further, I Think Them The Only Redeeming Feature Of Sexual Life At Public Schools.