The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

The mind is an active, dynamic process, not a passive receptacle.

"El terror no es solo lo sobrenatural, sino lo que los seres humanos somos capaces de hacernos unos a otros."

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.