I don't promise to remember."
Peter puffed his cigar for a moment "I sometimes conclude," he said,
"that the people who are most in need of education, are the college-bred
men. They seem to think they've done all the work and study of their
life in their four years, and so can dissipate mentally ever after." But
Peter smiled as he said this and continued, more seriously: "Society and
personal freedom are only possible in conjunction, when law or public
opinion interferes to the degree of repressing all individual acts that
interfere with the freedom of others; thus securing the greatest
individual freedom to all. So far as physical force is concerned, we
have pretty well realized this condition. Because a man is strong he can
no longer take advantage of the weak. But strength is not limited to
muscle. To protect the weak mind from the strong mind is an equal duty,
and a far more difficult task. So far we have only partially succeeded.
In this difficulty lies the whole problem.
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