The Jester Is Brother To The Sage.

Of All Forms Of Mental Activity, The Most Difficult To Induce Even In The Minds Of The Young, Who May Be Presumed Not To Have Lost Their Flexibility, Is The Art Of Handling The Same Bundle Of Data As Before, But Placing Them In A New System Of Relations With One Another By Giving Them A Different Framework, All Of Which Virtually Means Putting On A Different Kind Of Thinking-cap For The Moment. It Is Easy To Teach Anybody A New Fact...but It Needs Light From Heaven Above To Enable A Teacher To Break The Old Framework In Which The Student Is Accustomed To Seeing.

The Progress Of Science, Like An Ancient Desert Trail, Is Strewn With The Bleached Skeletons Of Discarded Theories, Doctrines, And Axioms Which Seemed To Possess Eternal Life.

In The Meantime, The Educated Public Continues To Believe That Darwin Has Provided All The Relevant Answers By The Magic Formula Of Random Mutations Plus Natural Selection -quite Unaware Of The Fact That Random Mutations Turned Out To Be Irrelevant And Natural Selection Tautology.

In The Social Equation, The Value Of A Single Life Is Nil; In The Cosmic Equation, It Is Infinite... Not Only Communism, But Any Political Movement Which Implicitly Relies On Purely Utilitarian Ethics, Must Become A Victim To The Same Fatal Error. It Is A Fallacy As Naïve As A Mathematical Teaser, And Yet Its Consequences Lead Straight To Goya's Disasters, To The Reign Of The Guillotine, The Torture Chambers Of The Inquisition, Or The Cellars Of The Lubianka.

A Publisher Who Writes Is Like A Cow In A Milk Bar.