This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears.
Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes.
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. No other good they may get can make up for that. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.