21/58 You know he's written an essay about it; says it is vulgar, and entirely inharmonious with that Revelation of Humanity that is found in the teachings of Comte. It is the sort of thing the Eighteenth Century _couldn't_ have produced even in its worst moments. The idea of the Food never entered the head of Comte--which shows how wicked it really is. No one, he says, who really understood Comte...." "But you don't mean to say--" said Redwood, alarmed out of his disdain for Winkles. "But public opinion is public opinion, and votes are votes. |