Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Huxley , Thomas Henry (2010-05), A Liberal Education and Where to Find It, Kessinger Publishing, Retrieved on 2012-06-05Source Material [books.google.com]
Memes
05 JUN 2012
Nature as a Game of Chess
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with a disapprobation amounting to scorn upon the father who allowed his son, or ...We are in the game, shouldn't we learn the rules?