They are like children so stupid as to notice nothing paradoxical in the playful assertion that a door is not a door.

The modern latitudinarians speak, for instance, about authority in religion not only as if there were no reason in it, but as if there had never been any reason for it.

Apart from seeing its philosophical basis, they cannot even see its historical cause.

Religious authority has often, doubtless, been oppressive or unreasonable; just as every legal system (and especially our present one) has been callous and full of a cruel apathy.

It is rational to attack the police; nay, it is glorious.