The Position Of Modern Science, As Far

Taking The State Wherever Found, Striking Into Its History At Any Point, One Sees No Way To Differentiate The Activities Of Its Founders, Administrators And Beneficiaries From Those Of A Professional-criminal Class.

You Get The Same Order Of Criminality From Any State To Which You Give Power To Exercise It; And Whatever Power You Give The State To Do Things For You Carries With It The Equivalent Power To Do Things To You.

Assuming That Man Has A Distinct Spiritual Nature, A Soul, Why Should It Be Thought Unnatural That Under Appropriate Conditions Of Maladjustment, His Soul Might Die Before His Body Does; Or That His Soul Might Die Without His Knowing It?

Considering Mankind's Indifference To Freedom, Their Easy Gullibility And Their Facile Response To Conditioning, One Might Very Plausibly Argue That Collectivism Is The Political Mode Best Suited To Their Disposition And Their Capacities. Under Its Regime, The Citizen, Like The Soldier, Is Relieved Of The Burden Of Initiative And Is Divested Of All Responsibility, Save For Doing As He Is Told.

It Is Easy To Prescribe Improvement For Others; It Is Easy To Organize Something, To Institutionalize This Or That, To Pass Laws, Multiply Bureaucratic Agencies, Form Pressure Groups, Start Revolutions, Change Forms Of Government, Tinker At Political Theory. The Fact That These Expedients Have Been Tried Unsuccessfully In Every Conceivable Combination For 6,000 Years Has Not Noticeably Impaired A Credulous Unintelligent Willingness To Keep On Trying Them Again And Again.