Montaigne And Education of the Judgment
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His imagination carried him away. L ' Most of us, in the workings of our mind, require lead rather than wings. " - "A very little, " he would say, "diverts us and leads us astray, be- cause we are held down by very little. " He was liable to fly away at any moment because he never clung strongly to anything. We are grieved to find that even when sunk in grief over the loss of La Boe'tie, he immediately sought a diversion : - "I once suffered a great grief; to divert my thoughts, I played at bei...ng in love. And love consoled me of the pain that friendship had caused me. " The Essays contain lessons for every age, as we have just seen, some of them not altogether edify- 50 MONTAIGNE ing. They contain excellent ones for old age. Now it should be noticed that Montaigne thought himself on the downward slope of old age when he was only forty years old. Thenceforward he was only "half a being, " as he said. In 1582 ; at the age of fifty, while writing the third book of the Essays, he said, "I am shrivelling up and growing rancid.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His imagination carried him away. L ' Most of us, in the workings of our mind, require lead rather than wings. " - "A very little, " he would say, "diverts us and leads us astray, be- cause we are held down by very little. " He was liable to fly away at any moment because he never clung strongly to anything. We are grieved to find that even when sunk in grief over the loss of La Boe'tie, he immediately sought a diversion : - "I once suffered a great grief; to divert my thoughts, I played at bei...ng in love. And love consoled me of the pain that friendship had caused me. " The Essays contain lessons for every age, as we have just seen, some of them not altogether edify- 50 MONTAIGNE ing. They contain excellent ones for old age. Now it should be noticed that Montaigne thought himself on the downward slope of old age when he was only forty years old. Thenceforward he was only "half a being, " as he said. In 1582 ; at the age of fifty, while writing the third book of the Essays, he said, "I am shrivelling up and growing rancid.
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