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—By all the means you know.—"Shall I seek for knowledge?"—You can not avoid that knowledge which is best for you.—"But there is such a thing as a wise man, and such a thing as a fool!"—Aye—but there is no such thing as a wise man making a fool of himself. According to his wisdom he will obey the laws. "But if he disobey, will it not be the worse for him?"—No. He is not wise as yet, if he disobey: but if he disobey, it is better, for this will make him wise. It does not follow, because a wise man will observe the laws, that a fool would find that course the best. The policy of the wise is wisdom; the policy of the fool is folly, until he become wise,—for "wisdom is foolishness to the simple." "But the best course is the happiest?"—Aye; and the fool takes the best course, for a fool. Every man has the wisdom of God for his own salvation. "But the way of the transgressor is hard."—And the stolen fruit is sweetened with liberty.—"And is the wise in his wisdom no happier than the fool in his folly?"—Were it not unjust that one man should be happier than another? Is it not better, if there needs to be a variety, that one quality should compensate another in the general consciousness of men? And for the fact, question experience. Is not the fool the jolliest of us all?—By common consent, the fools do the laughing, and the wise look on. Ask yourself, are you not wiser than when you were a boy? You are. Are you not freer? You are. Are you proportionately happier? You are not. Yet you would not go back, save you might take your wisdom with you. Therefore all you have gained has not made you