The 'gallows' Are Not Only A Symbol

When A Person Identifies Himself With A Group His Critical Faculties Are Diminished And His Passions Enhanced By A Kind Of Emotive Resonance. The Individual Is Not A Killer, The Group Is, And By Identifying With It, The Individual Becomes One. This Is The Infernal Dialect Reflected In Man's History.

Most Of Us Were Not Afraid Of Death, Only Of The Act Of Dying; And There Were Times When We Overcame Even This Fear. At Such Moments We Were Free-men Without Shadows, Dismissed From The Ranks Of The Mortal; It Was The Most Complete Experience Of Freedom That Can Be Granted A Man.

Brain-washing Starts In The Cradle.

It Is Impossible To Decide Whether A Particular Detail Of The Pythagorean Universe Was The Work Of The Master, Or Filled In By A Pupil A Remark Which Equally Applies To Leonardo Or Michelangelo . But There Can Be No Doubt That The Basic Features Were Conceived By A Single Mind; That Pythagoras Of Samos Was Both The Founder Of A New Religious Philosophy, And The Founder Of Science, As The Word Is Understood Today.

Death Tripped Down The Corridor, Changing Step, Struck Out Here And There, Danced Pirouettes; Often I Felt His Breath On My Face When He Was Miles Away; Often I Fell Asleep And Dreamed While He Stood Leaning Over My Bed.