That Roguish And Cheerful Vice,

There Are People Who Want To Make Men's Lives More Difficult For No Other Reason Than The Chance It Provides Them Afterwards To Offer Their Prescription For Alleviating Life; Their Christianity, For Instance.

Let Them Like The Tibetans, Chew The Cud Of Their "om Mane Padme Hum" Innumerable Times, Or, As In Benares, Count The Name Of The God Ram-ram-ram (etc. With Or Without Charm) On Their Fingers; Or Honour Vishnu With His Thousand Names Of Invocation, Allah With His Ninety-nine; Or They May Make Use Of The Prayer-wheels And The Rosary: The Main Thing Is That They Are Settled Down For A Time At This Work And Are Tolerable To Look At. This Kind Of Prayer Has Been Invented For The Benefit Of The Pious Who Have Thought And Elevations Of Their Own.

One Is Punished Best For One's Virtues.

One Should Not Understand This Compulsion To Construct Concepts, Species, Forms, Purposes, Laws ('a World Of Identical Cases') As If They Enabled Us To Fix The Real World; But As A Compulsion To Arrange A World For Ourselves In Which Our Existence Is Made Possible:-we Thereby Create A World Which Is Calculable, Simplified, Comprehensible, Etc., For Us.

To Become The Founder Of A New Religion One Must Be Psychologically Infallible In One's Knowledge Of A Certain Average Type Of Souls Who Have Not Yet Recognized That They Belong Together.