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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

CHAPTER 9
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And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed.

Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise--perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it--and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end.
"Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race--the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.

These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities.

There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions." I did not like to hear our race called sheep, and said I did not think they were.
"Still, it is true, lamb," said Satan.

"Look at you in war--what mutton you are, and how ridiculous!" "In war?
How ?" "There has never been a just one, never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war.


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