We ride home after more talking about popular modes of teaching and especially of the Sounding Oracle the Lyceum now consulted by all people and fast becoming the university of the land. If this entry was indeed penned on the thirteenth, then it suggests his trepidation about going off once again to cast pearls before swine. It is like a stiff soil, a hard-pan. If you go deeper than usual, you are sure to meet with a pan made harder even by the superficial cultivation. The stupid you have always with you.
Men are more obedient at first to words than ideas.
They mind names more than things. Or halve your lecture, and put a psalm at the beginning and a prayer at the end of it and read it from a pulpit, and they will pronounce it good without thinking. Notes 1 .