“An egg shell is an example of surface tension. The chick has to peck open the egg itself, or the chick’s musculature will not operate.”

Surface tension is a commonplace example of the Rings-Pass-Not.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

“The pupil’s imagination is ‘schooled’ to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.”

John Taylor Gatto argued that in The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin asserted that only a small portion of the human race was genuinely evolving, while treating others as evolutionary dead ends. He viewed Darwin’s social views as echoing old-fashioned class/spiritual obedience under a ‘scientific’ guise.”