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Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre

Isaiah Berlin

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The Inquisition Is a Force for Peace

The church enunciated dogmatic propositions which human beings broke at their peril. Religion and serfhood are the two anchors upon which stable human society rests. To put scientists in charge of any human institution is to guarantee its doom. The great governing people of the earth, the jews, the spartans and the romans, despised science. When the romans wanted science, they bought greeks who were their scientists for them. And the romans knew that if they try to be scientists themselves, they woll merely make themselves ridiculous. If you lock up a russian desire and a fortress, the fortress woll glow up. Your people desire science. Nothing is more

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