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At another time I was foolishly harsh with my tools; but I knew now the time required by him to come upstairs, and I swiftly filled the groove with bread, strewed ashes and sand over it, rubbed all smooth, and was plunged in my copy of Montaigne when he entered.
45: Montaigne, III. 10; Florio, 604: 'Custome is a second nature, and no less powerfull.... To conclude, I am ready to finish this man, not to make another. By longe custome this forme is changed into substance, Fortune into Nature. 47: This is wanting in the first quarto, like the whole conclusion of this scene.
Every reasonable thinking man must as certainly discover anew these pedagogical principles, as he must discover anew the relation between the angles of a triangle. Spencer's book it is true has not laid again the foundation of education. It can rather be called the crown of the edifice founded by Montaigne, Locke, Rousseau, and the great German specialists in pedagogy.
The influence exercised by the large-souled and practical Frenchman over the fate and the history of Maltravers was very peculiar. De Montaigne had not, apparently and directly, operated upon his friend's outward destinies; but he had done so indirectly, by operating on his mind.
If we would find in his essay on Montaigne, a biography, we are shown a biography of scepticism and in reducing this to relation between "sensation and the morals" we are shown a true Montaigne we know the man better perhaps by this less presentation. If we would stop and trust heavily on the harvest of originality, he shows us that this plant this part of the garden is but a relative thing.
By one of those contrasts common to thoughtful men, M. Weil, who never left his books and lived only in the life of the mind, had a passion for all things military. "We are all cranks," said the half-Jew Montaigne, applying to mankind in general what is perfectly true of certain types of minds, like the type of which M. Weil was an example. The old intellectual had the craze for Napoleon.
He shouted for assistance; and the lights borne by the servants who rushed into the room revealed to him the face of his brother-in-law. Cesarini, though in strong convulsions, still uttered cries and imprecations of revenge; he denounced De Montaigne as a traitor and a murderer!
At a moment when fanatical thoughts have mastered his reason, he bids her go to a nunnery. Once more we must point to the Essay in which Montaigne lays down his ideas about woman and love. 'But there is no word, no example, no single step in that matter which they do not know better than our books do.
He has read Aesop's fable, and is the last man in the world to relinquish the shabbiest substance to grasp at the finest shadow. Of nothing under the sun was Montaigne quite certain, except that every man whatever his station might travel farther and fare worse; and that the playing with his own thoughts, in the shape of essay-writing, was the most harmless of amusements.
That these intentions of Shakspere were understood by his more intelligent contemporaries and friends, we shall prove when we come to the camp of his adversaries, at whose head a Roman Catholic stood, who launches out in very marked language against the derision of Montaigne as contained in the character of Hamlet.
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