“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
