They hardly retain the distinction of right and wrong; they seem to think one thing as good as another.

They suppose themselves to be searching after truth when they are playing the game of 'follow my leader.' They fall in love 'at first sight' with paradoxes respecting morality, some fancy about art, some novelty or eccentricity in religion, and like lovers they are so absorbed for a time in their new notion that they can think of nothing else.

The resolution of some philosophical or theological question seems to them more interesting and important than any substantial knowledge of literature or science or even than a good life.
Like the youth in the Philebus, they are ready to discourse to any one about a new philosophy.

They are generally the disciples of some eminent professor or sophist, whom they rather imitate than understand.

They may be counted happy if in later years they retain some of the simple truths which they acquired in early education, and which they may, perhaps, find to be worth all the rest.