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The Business Of A Scientific School Is The Dissemination Of Useful Knowledge, And This Is A Noble Enterprise And Indispensable Withal; Society Can Not Exist Unless It Goes On.

If The Modern Spirit, Whatever That May Be, Is Disinclined Towards Taking The Lord's Word At Its Face Value (as I Hear Is The Case), We May Observe That Isaiah's Testimony To The Character Of The Masses Has Strong Collateral Support From Respectable Gentile Authority. Plato Lived Into The Administration Of Eubulus, When Athens Was At The Peak Of Its Jazz-and-paper Era, And He Speaks Of The Athenian Masses With All Isaiah's Fervency, Even Comparing Them To A Herd Of Ravenous Wild Beasts.

I Am Said To Be Difficult Of Acquaintance, Unwilling To Meet Any One Half Way, And Showing A Social Manner Which Is Easy, Not Diffident, But Formal And Unresponsive, Tending Constantly To Hold People Off.

As Sheer Casual Reading Matter, I Still Find The English Dictionary The Most Interesting Book In Our Language.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own. All The Power It Has Is What Society Gives It, Plus What It Confiscates From Time To Time On One Pretext Or Another, There Is No Other Source From Which State Power Can Be Drawn. Therefore Every Assumption Of State Power, Whether By Gift Or Seizure Leaves Society With So Much Less Power; There Is Never, Nor Can Be, Any Strengthening Of State Power Without A Corresponding And Roughly Equivalent Depletion Of Social Power.