The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne Author:Michel de Montaigne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [which] doth amaze us, hath relation unto some There is other figure of the same kinde, although unknown nothing unto man. From out his all seeing wisedome pro- ... more »ceedeth nothing but good, common, regular and or derly ; but we neither see the sorting, nor conceive the relation. Quod erebro videt, non miratur, etiam si, cur fo1l, nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id, si eoenerit, ostentum esse censet (Csc. Divin. ii.). That which he often seeth, he doth not wonder at, though he know not why it is done; But if that happen, which he never saw before, he thinkes it some portentuous wonder. Wee call that against nature, which commeth against custome. There is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according to hir. Let therefore this universall and naturall reason, chase from us the error, and expell the astonishment, which noveltie breedeth, and strangencs causeth in us. Chap. XXXI Of anger and choler DLUTARKE is every where admirable, but especially where he judgeth of humane actions. The notable things he reporteth, may be perceived in the comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents. Most of our policies, or Common.wealths, saith Aristotle (as the Cyclopes were wont) commit the con- Cruelty duct of their wives, and charge of their children, to boys to all men, according to their foolish humor or "'" indiscreete fantazies. And wel-nigh, none but the Lacedemonian and Cretensian, have resigned the discipline of children to the lawes. Who teeth not, that in an estate all things depend of nurture and education ? And all the while, without discretion, it is wholy left to the parents mercy, how foolish and wicked soever they be. Amongst other things, how often (walking ...« less