[heresy Is] The Dislocation Of A Complete

In The Same Way The Eminence Attaching To The Mere Possession Of Great Wealth Disappoints Us Nine Times Out Of Ten, Especially If The Wealth Has Been Accumulated Rapidly. For Great Wealth Is Accumulated Rapidly By Cunning Or Chance, Or A Mixture Of The Two. Cunning Has Nothing To Do With High Qualities; It Is Rather A Presumption Against Them; While Chance Has Nothing To Do With Them Either. Therefore It Is That Men Are Always Complaining After Meeting So-and-so, That He Seemed To Be Astonishingly Stupid, Though He Made A Million In Ten Years And Started As A Pauper.

The Devil, Having Nothing Else To Do Went Off To Tempt My Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, Tempted By A Private Whim, To His Extreme Annoyance, Tempted Him.

Coupled With Usury, Unrestricted Competition Destroys The Small Man For The Profit Of The Great And In So Doing Produces That Mass Of Economically Unfree Citizens Whose Very Political Freedom Comes In Question Because It Has No Foundation In Any Economic Freedom, That Is, Any Useful Proportion Of Property To Support It. Political Freedom Without Economic Freedom Is Almost Worthless, And It Is Because The Modern Proletariat Has The One Kind Of Freedom Without The Other That Its Rebellion Is Now Threatening The Very Structure Of The Modern World.

Of Old When Folk Lay Sick And Sorely Tried The Doctors Gave Them Physic, And They Died. But Here's A Happier Age: For Now We Know Both How To Make Men Sick And Keep Them So.

The Worship Of The Nation Has Been Able To Make Men Tolerate Under Its Authority What They Could Never Have Tolerated From Princes: A Submission To Rule, Which, Through Sumptuary Laws On Food And Drink, Through Conscription, Through A Cast-iron System Of Compulsory Instruction For All On State Ordered Lines, And Through A State Examination At The Gate Of Every Profession, Has Almost Killed The Citizen's Power To React Upon That Which Controls Him, And Has Almost Destroyed That Variety Which Is The Mark Of Life.