“Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.”

—  African Spir

Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 58.

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