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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
Yes. I have written on Education in Liber Aleph: the Book 
of Wisdom or Folly. The book is itself Education; there are, 
however, six chapters which treat of the subject in the special 
sense in which your question has involved us. 
So I shall fling these chapters headlong into this letter. 
De Voluntate Juvenum 
Long, 0 my Son, hath been this Digression from the 
plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was 
most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits 
of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man 
which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his 
Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth 
him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is 
always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow 
to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his 
Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly 
acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being always taken 
to remove the Cause of the Error, namely, Ignorance, as 
aforesaid. Thou mayst also assume that it is Part of the 
Child's Will to train every Function of the Mind; and the 
Guardians may therefore combat the Inertia which 
hinders its Development . Yet here is much Caution 
necessary, and it is better to work by exciting and 
satisfying 
any natural Curiosity than by forcing 
Application to set Tasks, however obvious this Necessity 
may appear. 
De Modo Dispu tandi 
Now in this Training of the Child is one most dear 
Consideration, that I shall impress upon thee as is 
Conformity with our holy Experience in the Way of 
Truth And it is this, that since that which can be 
thought is not true, every Statement is in some sense 
false. Even on the Sea of pure Reason, we may say that