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Boredom And Fatigue Are Great Historical Forces.

Machines Are Admirable And Tyrannize Only With The User's Consent. Where, Then, Is The Enemy? Not Where The Machine Gives Relief From Drudgery But Where Human Judgment Abdicates. The Smoothest Machine-made Product Of The Age Is The Organization Man, For Even The Best Organizing Principle Tends To Corrupt, And The Mechanical Principle Corrupts Absolutely.

In Any Assembly The Simplest Way To Stop Transacting Business And Split The Ranks Is To Appeal To A Principle.

After Being Boxed In By Man And His Constructions In Europe And The East, The Release Into Space Is Exhilarating. The Horizon Is A Huge Remote Circle, And No Hills Intervene.

Can An Idea A Notion As Abstract As Relativism Produce By Itself The Effects Alleged? Cause All The Harm, Destroy All The Lives And Reputations? I Am As Far As Anyone Can Be From Denying The Power Of Ideas In History, But The Suggestion That A Philosophy (as Relativism Is Often Called) Has Perverted Millions And Debased Daily Life Is On The Face Of It Absurd. No Idea Working Alone Has Ever Demoralized Society, And There Have Been Plenty Of Ideas Simpler And More Exciting Than Relativism.