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...the use of printing, which alone makes the public, and not a few individuals, the guardians and defenders of the laws. It is this art which by diffusing literature, has gradually dissipated the gloomy spirit of cabal and intrigue. To this art it is owing that the atrocious crimes of our ancestors, who were alternately slaves and tyrants, are become less frequent.
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If education is relieved of the dead weight of a clerical traditionalism that in any case is rapidly being corroded by the flow of modern ideas, it will become livelier and attractive to the youth.
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...because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. It affirms because it holds. Its fingers clutch the fact, and it will not open its eyes to see a better fact. The castle, which conservatism is set to defend, is the actual state of things, good and bad.
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It is said that our ideas are impractical. That is true. From the standpoint of old institutions, interests and their beneficiaries; the new is always impractical.
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Upon the back of industry has been the whip. Upon the brain have been the fetters of superstition. Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes.
Every science has been an outcast.
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If you really feel that one one would take offense at hearing nontraditional ideas, I would be glad to discuss our work. But some of it may conflict with established preju-uh-established opinion.
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Formerly, when one invented a new function it was in view of some practical goal; today one invents them expressly to point out flaws in the reasoning of our fathers and one will never derive anything from them but that.
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...as in other phases of the great progressive movement of which vegetarianism is a part, to give expression to a new idea is to excite a host of blind and angry prejudices. The champions of the old are too disdainful to take counsel with the champions of the new; hence they commonly attribute to them designs quite different from those which they really entertain...
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April 12, 2020 : Tradition -- Added.
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