But We Were Made To Believe And

Concepts Antedate Facts.

In Business Life, That Is, In Its Material Processes, We Eagerly Accept The New. In Social Life, In All Our Social Processes, We Piously, Valiantly, Obdurately, Maintain The Old.

In The Field Of Economics We Maintain To This Day Some Of The Most Primitive Ideas, Some Of The Most Radically False Ideas, Some Of The Most Absurd Ideas A Brain Can Hold. ... But All This Give No Uneasiness To The Average Brain. That Long-suffering Organ Has Been Trained For More Thousands Of Years Than History Can Uncover To Hold In Unquestioning Patience Great Blocks Of Irrelevant Idiocy And Large Active Lies.

The Stony-minded Orthodox Were Right In Fearing The First Movement Of New Knowledge And Free Thought. It Has Gone On, And Will Go On, Irresistibly, Until Some Day We Shall Have No Respect For An Alleged "truth" Which Cannot Stand The Full Blaze Of Knowledge, The Full Force Of Active Thought.

Eternity Is Not Something That Begins After You Are Dead. It Is Going On All The Time.