Politics of Obedience

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simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces? 49
(Part II) DOCTORS ARE NO DOUBT CORRECT in warning us not to touch incurable wounds; and I am presumably taking chances in preaching as I do to a people which has long lost all sensitivity and, no longer conscious of its infirmity, is plainly suffering from mortal illness. Let us therefore understand by logic, if we can, how it happens that this obstinate willingness to submit has become so deeply rooted in a nation that the very love of liberty now seems no longer natural. In the first place, all would agree that, if we led our lives according to the ways intended by nature and the lessons taught by her, we should be intuitively obedient to our parents; later we should adopt reason as our guide and become slaves to nobody. Concerning the obedience given instinctively to one's father and mother, we are in agreement, each one admitting himself to be a model. As to whether reason is born with us or not, that is a question loudly discussed by academicians and treated by all schools of philosophers. For the present I think I do not err in stating that there is in our souls some native seed of reason, which, if nourished by good counsel and training, flowers into 50
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Page 10 and 11: In the ferment of his law school da
Page 12 and 13: ights itself, Allen correctly adds,
Page 14 and 15: willingness to bear with him; who c
Page 16 and 17: eally rests on mass consent, then t
Page 18 and 19: anarchism, used a lengthy passage f
Page 20 and 21: the ruler's acquiring power, and th
Page 22 and 23: and bolstered by the insidious thro
Page 24 and 25: Another method of inducing consent
Page 26 and 27: They do not realize that they are i
Page 28 and 29: wicked dregs of the nation ... all
Page 30 and 31: whom they depend. Eventually, as en
Page 32 and 33: historical fate of La Boétie's Dis
Page 34 and 35: Communist countries. In modern poli
Page 36 and 37: The prime task of education, then,
Page 38 and 39: THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE: THE DISC
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Page 42 and 43: Therefore, when a nation is constra
Page 44 and 45: at a guess, promise victory? Which
Page 46 and 47: without being quenched by water, bu
Page 50 and 51: virtue, but which, on the other han
Page 52 and 53: complain, And the birds in their ca
Page 54 and 55: city of Sicily when, in the throes
Page 56 and 57: elieve that these two groups of peo
Page 58 and 59: the dictator's presence or at his c
Page 60 and 61: liberty had entirely perished from
Page 62 and 63: By this time it should be evident t
Page 64 and 65: on the hook by wormy bait, than are
Page 66 and 67: cannot be cleverness where there is
Page 68 and 69: He brought him low, his heels above
Page 70 and 71: (Part III) I COME NOW to a point wh
Page 72 and 73: extraordinary avarice, these gather
Page 74 and 75: the possession of wealth is the wor
Page 76 and 77: Quite generally known is the striki
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