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Since [rousseau's] Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of Model, To Become A Manikin On Which The Toilet Of Education Is To Be Draped In Order To Show The Fit Or Misfit Of The Clothes. The Object Of Study Is The Garment, Not The Figure.

[adams] Supposed That, Except Musicians, Everyone Thought Beethoven A Bore, As Every One Except Mathematicians Thought Mathematics A Bore.

No Historian Can Take Part With--or Against--the Forces He Has To Study. To Him Even The Extinction Of The Human Race Should Merely Be A Fact To Be Grouped With Other Vital Statistics.

My Belief Is That Science Is To Wreck Us, And That We Are Like Monkeys Monkeying With A Loaded Shell; We Don't In The Least Know Or Care Where Our Practically Infinite Energies Come From Or Will Bring Us To.

To My Fancy, One Looks Back On Life, It Has Only Two Responsibilities, Which Include All The Others: One Is The Bringing Of New Life Into Existence; The Other, Educating It After It Is Brought In. All Betrayals Of Trust Result From These Original Sins.