"This is indeed benevolent in him to go so far out of his way to teach us. Of course, this is pure kindness and not a desire to over-top the rest of humanity. It is his latest acquisition of mental evolution, which, let us hope, will not turn in—dissolution....Now just listen to the man jabbering about what he knows nothing. No men living are freer than we when we have once passed outside of the stage of pupilage. Docile and obedient but never slaves during that time we must be; otherwise, and if we pass our time in arguing we never would learn anything at all."