The Stupid Are Invincible.

The Road To Perdition Has Ever Been Accompanied By Lip Service To An Ideal.

Though Our Conduct Seems So Very Different From That Of The Higher Animals, The Primary Instincts Are Much Alike In Them And In Us.

My Pacifism Is An Instinctive Feeling, A Feeling That Possesses Me Because The Murder Of Men Is Disgusting. My Attitude Is Not Derived From Any Intellectual Theory But Is Based On My Deepest Antipathy To Every Kind Of Cruelty And Hatred.

[i] Must Seek In The Stars That Which Was Denied [to Me] On Earth.

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.