cubless

Updated: May 6, 2025

I am told that lions never send their cubs away to be educated by a cubless lioness and an emasculated lion. The lion learns by first playing at the thing and then doing it. A motherless boy, brought up by an indulgent father, one might prophesy, would be sure to rule the father and be spoiled himself through omission of the rod. But in the boy problem all signs fail.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8