A Man May Be A Pessimistic Determinist Before Lunch And An Optimistic Believer In The Will's Freedom After It.
The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Books.
What We Feel And Think And Are Is To A Great Extent Determined By The State Of Our Ductless Glands And Viscera.
From Their Experience Or From The Recorded Experience Of Others (History), Men Learn Only What Their Passions And Their Metaphysical Prejudices Allow Them To Learn.
That All Men Are Equal Is A Proposition To Which, At Ordinary Times, No Sane Human Being Has Ever Given His Assent.