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发帖数: 6791 | 1 I have no sympathy with vagabonds and talkers who try to reform society by
taking men away from their regular productive work and making vagabonds and
talkers of them too; and if I had been Pilate I should have recognized as
plainly as he the necessity for suppressing attacks on the existing social
order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowledge of
government and no power to construct political machinery to carry out their
views, acting on the very dangerous delusion that the end of the world was
at hand. I make no defence of such Christians as Savonarola and John of
Leyden: they were scuttling the ship before they had learned how to build a
raft; and it became necessary to throw them overboard to save the crew. |
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