I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in time of war. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |