“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden” (23).
“He that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark xvi, 16).
For partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, our parents were banished from Paradise; for obeying the dictates of reason, we are consigned to hell.
Education, physical, moral, and intellectual, is discouraged.
Bodily exercise profiteth little.—Paul.
Be not righteous overmuch.—Solomon.
Neither make thyself over wise.—Solomon.
Choice mottoes, the above, to hang up on the walls of the school-room!
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy” (Col. ii, 8).
“Knowledge puffeth up” (1 Cor. viii, 1).