RED OR DEAD?
For some mysterious reason men cannot seem to carry on their existence without forming a kind of partnership with their gods, and when these gods fail them, as all gods…
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Only a Few Want Liberty
Freedom of speech is always preferred to freedom of thought in a democracy. Thus any idiot has the right to shoot off his mouth while an intelligent man with an original idea is frequently compelled to hold his tongue.
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H.G. WELLS, AUTHOR, PROPHET AND HERETIC
The world, he lamented, was governed by a force that was hostile to survival.
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NOT IN VAIN
Shall another Gibbon write “The Decline And Fall of the United States of America”?
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STONE BY STONE
I typed one page of a projected novel and feel as though I have accomplished something today. How easily satisfied I am. But I must not expect too much of…
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A Wake-Up for Voters and More
The lack of any sufficient effort on the part of the plebeian, proletarian and vast slave population to wrest their welfare from the hands of the dominant minority proved fatal to the centuries’ old Republic and led to the ensuing centuries of idiosyncratic emperors, not one of whom was ever voted into office, and their millionaire Senatorial supporters. Thus Rome, clinging to its far flung frontiers, declined and fell while the status of its vast populace continued to hover for the most part on the borderline of survival.
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Religion, Lawyers and the Plight of the Masses
What has become of the great American experiment?
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Reflections on Religion in the Western World
The fangs of a famished tiger two inches from one’s throat is something quite different from a genial discussion among friends of the lethal potentialities of certain members of the cat family when beset with hunger.
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On Literary Critics, Poets, Artists and Life
My sole demand of a critic is that he write well enough to entertain me and not attempt to prejudice me for or against anything.
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THOUGHTS FROM AN UNQUIET MIND XII
The unvarnished truth is that a nation is nothing more than a large number of people living within the boundaries of a certain area on the face of the globe.
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