February 25, 2009

Truth revealed and accepted accelerates learning by drawing the lover of truth like a magnet. Dogma, therefore, if they are true, do no harm to the intellect. Falsehood, however, does positive harm. Thus the modern disregard for assertions of truth (which are, of course, directed at truths the modern doesn’t like or at people who …

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Kids need and like heroes, but they also like having a context in which to locate them. Besides, no hero is a hero without a context in which he became a hero. He had to fight something. They love to see the overall flow of history or of a given period. This is pleasing to …

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