This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The appearance of impropriety is itself the impropriety.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Appearance | World |
Man is, indeed, a being apart, since he is not influenced by the great laws which irresistibly modify all other organic beings… Man has not only escaped natural selection himself, but he is actually able to take away some of that power from nature which before his appearance she universally exercised.
Appearance | Man | Nature | Organic | Power |
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Authority | Confidence | Fear | Force | Self | Self-confidence | Sincerity | Sound | Work |