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Penal Law Was Not Created By The Common People, Nor By The Peasantry, Nor By The Proletariat, But Entirely By The Bourgeoisie As An Important Tactical Weapon In This System Of Divisions Which They Wished To Introduce.

... We Are Obliged To Produce The Truth By The Power That Demands Truth And Needs It In Order To Function: We Are Constrained, We Are Condemned To Admit The Truth Or To Discover It. Power Constantly Asks Questions And Questions Us; It Constantly Investigates And Records; It Institutionalizes The Search For The Truth, Professionalizes It, And Rewards It. ... In A Different Sense, We Are Also Subject To The Truth In The Sense That Truth Lays Down The Law: It Is The Discourse Of Truth That Decides, At Least In Part; It Conveys And Propels Effects Of Power.

Since The Fall, Man Had Accepted Labor As A Penance And For Its Power To Work Redemption. It Was Not A Law Of Nature Which Forced Man To Work, But The Effect Of A Curse.

Nature, Keeping Only Useless Secrets, Had Placed Within Reach And In Sight Of Human Beings The Things It Was Necessary For Them To Know.

Madness, In Its Wild, Untamable Words, Proclaims Its Own Meaning; In Its Chimeras, It Utters Its Secret Truth.