The Church Is A Perpetually Defeated Thing

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.

The Machine Does Not Control The Mind Of Man, Though It Affects The Mind Of Man; It Is The Mind Of Man That Can And Should Control The Machine.

Under The Old Social Philosophy Which Had Governed The Middle Ages, Temporal, And Therefore All Economic, Activities Were Referred To An Eternal Standard. The Production Of Wealth, It Distribution And Exchange Were Regulated With A View To Securing The Christian Life Of Christian Men. In Two Points Especially Was This Felt: First In Securing The Independence Of The Family, Which Can Only Be Done By The Wide Distribution Of Property, In Others Words The Prevention Of The Growth Of A Proletariat; Secondly, In The Close Connection Between Wealth And Public Function.

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.

Writing Itself Is A Bad Enough Trade, Rightly Held Up To Ridicule And Contempt By The Greater Part Of Mankind, And Especially By Those Who Do Real Work, Plowing, Riding, Sailing