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The Abolition of Man,
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4. See Appendix.
5. Analects of Confucius, xv. 39.
6. Eth. Nic. 1095 b, 1140 b, 1151 a.
7. John 7:49. The speaker said it in malice, but with more truth than he meant. Cf. John 13:51.
8. Mark 16:6.
9. Republic, 402 a
10. Philippians 3:6.
3 The Abolition of Man
1. The Boke Named the Governour, 1. iv: ‘Al men except physitions only shulde be excluded and kepte out of the norisery.’ 1 vi: ‘After that a childe is come to seuen yeres of age…the most sure counsaile is to withdrawe him from all company of women.’
2. Some Thoughts concerning Education, §7: ‘I will also advise his Feet to be wash’d every Day in cold Water, and to have his Shoes so thin that they might leak and let in Water, whenever he comes near it.’ § 174: ‘If he have a poetick vein, ’tis to me the strangest thing in the World that the Father should desire or suffer it to be cherished or improved. Methinks the Parents should labour to have it stifled and suppressed as much as may be.’ Yet Locke is one of our most sensible writers on education.
3. xs Dr Faustus, 77–90.
4. Advancement of Learning, Bk 1 (p. 60 in Ellis and Spedding, 1905; p. 35 in Everyman Edition).
5. Filum Labyrinthi, i.
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