Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.

  • Paul Charles Dubois
Date:
1909
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Credit: Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    to the education received in childhood and to the studies that we have taken up. Let us beware of decorating them with the name of truths; it is only a question of hypothesis, and we might end these discussions, which man always finds interesting, by an admis- sion : that after all neither we nor the others know anything about it. St. Paul said, Circumcision is nothing; uncircumcision is nothing: to keep the com- mandments of God is everything.'' We might equally say, ' * Spiritualism is nothing; materialism is nothing: to live a worthy life, working for the good of all, is everything.'' During the periods of our existence in which we are happy—when we have youth and health— we are indifferent to these questions. Opposition disappears, and we might say, Neither believers, nor freethinkers, every- body happy,'' but everything changes before adversity, suffering, and death. Man then feels his weakness; he trembles and, like the shipwrecked, seeks a plank for safety. Where does he find this saving help? Al- ways in conceptions destined to raise his courage, to push him towards the fight with [329]