GENIUS 71

abstract questions, as in his Study of Sociology or Educa-
tion, his style has almost every good quality except
beauty. And when he occasionally " lets himself go "
a little, as in the famous passage in the First Principles
at the end of the discussion of the Unknowable, there
is a ring of nobility in his sentences.

Sometimes he sums up with epigrammatic terseness,
and we submit a few of his utterances which we have
noted down as illustrating various qualities:—

" Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learn-
ing and working are for life."

" It is best to recognise the facts as they are, and not try
to prop up rectitude by fictions/*

" Beliefs, like creatures, must have fit environments before
they can live and grow."

" Mind is not as deep as the brain only, but is, in a sense,
as deep as the viscera."

«* Melody is an idealised form of the natural cadences of
emotion."

" Logic is a science of objective phenomena/'

** In proportion as intellect is active, emotion is rendered
inactive."

" Inherited constitution must ever be the chief factor in
determining character."

** Each nature is a bundle of potentialities of which only
some are allowed by the conditions to become actualities."

" Considering that the ordinary citizen has no excess of
individuality to boast of, it seems strange that he should be
so anxious to hide what little he has."

" Englishmen are averse to conclusions of wide generality."

" The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of
folly is to fill the world with fools."

"A nation which fosters its good-for-nothings will end
by becoming a good-for-nothing nation."

" I don't mean to get on. I don't think getting on is
worth the bother."

Genius.—It doubtless requires genius to define chair,