He Has Only Half Learned

Advice Would Be More Acceptable If It Didn't Always Conflict With Our Plans.

In Effort Happiness Idleness Life Pleasure Superstition Support Trouble Work The Superstition That All Our Hours Of Work Are A Minus Quantity In The Happiness Of Life, And All The Hours Of Idleness Are Plus Ones, Is A Most Ludicrous And Pernicious Doctrine, And Its Greatest Support Comes From Our Not Taking Sufficient Trouble, Not Making A Real Effort, To Make Work As Near Pleasure As It Can Be.

It Is Unfortunate, Considering That Enthusiasm Moves The World, That So Few Enthusiasts Can Be Trusted To Speak The Truth.

Though The Parallel Is Not Complete, It Is Safe To Say That Science Will Never Touch Them Unaided By Its Practical Applications. Its Wonders May Be Catalogued For Purposes Of Education, They May Be Illustrated By Arresting Experiments, By Numbers And Magnitudes Which Startle Or Fatigue The Imagination But They Will Form No Familiar Portion Of The Intellectual Furniture Of Ordinary Men Unless They Be Connected, However Remotely, With The Conduct Of Ordinary Life.

The Tyranny Of Majorities May Be As Bad As The Tyranny Of Kings.