Authority -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sections (TOC) : ---------------------------------- * 1 31 Words; 188 Characters * 2 11 Words; 61 Characters * 3 85 Words; 481 Characters * 4 8 Words; 59 Characters * 5 27 Words; 166 Characters * 6 27 Words; 160 Characters * 7 162 Words; 962 Characters * 8 34 Words; 200 Characters * 9 60 Words; 353 Characters * 10 16 Words; 115 Characters * 11 83 Words; 499 Characters * 12 10 Words; 65 Characters Sections (Content) : ---------------------------------- * 1 I have not seen any man so boorish, nor so impracticable, nor so stupid, nor so forgetful; who, while learning some little petty quibbles, forgets them before he has learned them. * 2 We don't want to be lectured to. No one enjoys that. * 3 I remember a group of scoundrels who couldn't hold a candle to me and who were loaded with money. I was in a buckram overcoat, and they were dressed in velvet, leaning on gold-headed canes shaped like ravens' beaks, with pictures of Aristotle or Plato on cameo rings on their fingers. But who were they? For the most part they were incompetent musicians-nowadays a sort of nobility. [...] It's the cruelest thing of all. It would almost be better for a man not to be born. * 4 ...does anyone have to understand what he teaches? * 5 Despotism has a definite answer to every question. You need not trouble yourself any more about limits; for he who has everything no longer asks: "How much?" * 6 This business of making a gifted boy's career depend on a competitive examination, taken when he is only twelve or thirteen is an evil thing at best... * 7 Clearly there has been a vast change of outlook, a general growth of "enlightenment," even among ordinary, unthinking middle-class people. Religious belief, for instance, has largely vanished, dragging other kinds of nonsense after it. I imagine that very few people nowadays would tell a child that if it masturbates it will end in the lunatic asylum. Beating, too, has become discredited, and has even been abandoned at many schools. Nor is the underfeeding of children looked on as a normal, almost meritorious act. No one now would openly set out to give his pupils as little food as they could do with, or tell them that it is healthy to get up from a meal as hungry as you sat down. The whole status of children has improved, partly because they have grown relatively less numerous. And the diffusion of even a little psychological knowledge has made it harder for parents and schoolteachers to indulge their aberrations in the name of discipline. * 8 The schoolmaster who imagines that he is loved and trusted by his boys is in fact mimicked and laughed at behind his back. An adult who does not seem dangerous nearly always seems ridiculous. * 9 While men could be persuaded they had no rights, or that rights appertained only to a certain class of men, or that government was a thing existing in right of itself, it was not difficult to govern them authoritatively. The ignorance in which they were held, and the superstition in which they were instructed, furnished the means of doing it. * 10 Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them? * 11 But against the "rational law" no one is to rebel, otherwise he is threatened with the severest penalty. What is wanted is not free movement and realization of the person or of me, but of reason -- a dominion of reason, a dominion. The liberals are zealots, not exactly for the faith, for God, but certainly for reason, their master. They brook no lack of breeding, and therefore no self-development and self-determination; they play the guardian as effectively as the most absolute rulers. * 12 The more books one reads, the more stupid one becomes... Events : ---------------------------------- Authority -- Added : April 12, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/