Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 19
Argument Dilution
You may not know the name Argument Dilution, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
Watch a master carpenter teach an apprentice. He does not lecture; he lets the boy hold the wrong end of the saw until the wood itself becomes the teacher.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.