I am a convinced authoritarian.

I share none of those illusory, Utopian fancies with which empirics blind themselves and exasperate the ignorant.

The day of these ideas is, believe me, past, or at least passing.' 'When I look about me--' began Otto.
'When you look about you,' interrupted the licentiate, 'you behold the ignorant.

But in the laboratory of opinion, beside the studious lamp, we begin already to discard these figments.

We begin to return to nature's order, to what I might call, if I were to borrow from the language of therapeutics, the expectant treatment of abuses.