Habit ( page 187 ).
Questions.
1. What is custom? routine? Which is the more mechanical? 2. What element does habit add to custom and routine? 3. Should we preferably use custom or habit of a society? of an individual? 4. What is fashion? rule? system? 5. What are use and usage, and how do they differ from each other? 6. What is practise? 7. What is the distinctive meaning of wont?
Examples.
Every —— is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the —— of walking by walking, of running by running.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that —— ought to be followed simply because it is ——, and not because it is reasonable or just.
Lord Brougham says "The longer I live the more careful I am to entrust everything that I really care to do to the beneficent power of ——."
—— makes perfect.
Without —— little that is valuable is ever learned or done.