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When a society is characterized by relatively little change, as is a traditional agricultural economy, status stability from one generation to the next is pronounced.
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Socialist movements have deteriorated into managerial controls; democracy is dominated by party cliques; and free thought has got entangled in dissertations on ultimate reality. The common man has again fallen a slave to the trade union leader, to a political party or to a doctrinaire approach, as in the case of Marxism.
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It is also a great folly to be taken with outward marks of respect, which signify nothing: for what true or real pleasure can one man find in another's standing bare, or making legs to him? Will the bending another man's knees give ease to yours?
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...it is fit the past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past, as of tradition.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock -- that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things. They will continually thrust their own low roof, with its narrow skylight, between you and the sky, when it is the unobstructed heavens you would view.
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Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities -- you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows...
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April 07, 2020 : Tradition -- Added.
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