INTRODUCTION TO MICHEL
DE MONTAIGNE
Ⅰ. OF CUSTOM, AND THAT WE SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED
Ⅱ. OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
Ⅲ. THAT FORTUNE IS OFTENTIMES OBSERVED TO ACT BY THE RULES OF REASON
Ⅳ. OF CANNIBALS
Ⅴ. OF WAR-HORSES, OR DESTRIERS
Ⅵ. OF DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS
Ⅶ. OF AGE
Ⅷ. OF DRUNKENNESS
Ⅸ. OF GLORY
Ⅹ. OF PRESUMPTION
Ⅺ. THAT WE TASTE NOTHING PURE
Ⅻ. OF THUMBS
ⅩⅢ. OF THE RESEMBLANCE OF CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS
ⅩⅣ. OF REPENTANCE
ⅩⅤ. UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL
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Heseems to have had a right and true apprehensionof the power of custom, who first invented the story of acountrywoman who, having accustomed herself to play withand carry, a young calf in her arms, and daily continuing to doso as it grew up, obtained this by custom, that, when grown tobe a great ox, she was still able to bear it. Forl in truth, custom isa violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She, .by little and little,slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority, buthaving by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit ~of time, fixed and established it, she then''unmasks a furiousand tyrannic countenance, against which we hav.e no more thecourage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. We see her,at every turn, forcing and violating the rules of nature: "Ususefficacissimus rerurn omnium magister." I refer.to her Plato''s cavein his Republic, and the physicians, who so often submit thereasons of their art to her authority; as the story of that,king,who by custom brought his stomach to that pass, as. to live bypoison, and the maid that Albertus reports to have lived uponspiders. In that new world of the Indies, there were found greatnations, and in very differing climates, who were of the same
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