“...Genius lasts
longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take
such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for
existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we
fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of
keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is
the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed
man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all
monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper
value.”
