kind. The straying ones, who so often are the inventive and productive ones, shall no longer be sacrificed; it shall not even be deemed a disgrace to stray from morals either in deods or thoughts; numerous experiments shall be made in matters of life and society; an enormous incubus of bad conscience shall be removed from the world—these are the general aims which ought to be recognised and furthered by all honest and truthseeking people.
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The morality which does not weary.—The chief moral commandments which a nation allows its teachers and preachers again and again to insist upon, are proportionate to its principal errors, and, therefore, not wearying. The Greeks who, but too frequently, set aside their moderation, cool courage, fair mindedness, and rationality, generally speaking, willingly welcomed the four Socratic virtues—for they were sorely in need of them, and, indeed, had very little talent for them.
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At the crossing of the roads.—For shame! you want to adopt a system in which you must either be a wheel in the fullest sense of the word, or be crushed by the wheels; in which it is a matter of course that everybody is that to which he was predestined; that the running after “connections" is one of the natural duties; that
