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Perseverance Is An Active Principle, And Cannot Continue To Operate But Under The Influence Of Desire.

The Proper Method For Hastening The Decay Of Error, Is Not, By Brute Force, Or By Regulation Which Is One Of The Classes Of Force, To Endeavour To Reduce Men To Intellectual Uniformity; But On The Contrary By Teaching Every Man To Think For Himself.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.

As The True Object Of Education Is Not To Render The Pupil The Mere Copy Of His Preceptor, It Is Rather To Be Rejoiced In, Than Lamented, That Various Reading Should Lead Him Into New Trains Of Thinking.

All Education Is Despotism. It Is Perhaps Impossible For The Young To Be Conducted Without Introducing In Many Cases The Tyranny Implicit In Obedience. Go There; Do That; Read; Write; Rise; Lie Down - Will Perhaps Forever Be The Language Addressed To Youth By Age.