And round they skelter, after their own tails.
That is, when they are not forced to grind out their lives for a wage.
Though work is the only thing that prevents our masses from going quite mad.
To tell the truth, ideas are the most dangerous germs mankind has ever been injected with.

They are introduced into the brain by injection, in schools and by means of newspapers, and then we are done for.
An idea which is merely introduced into the brain, and started spinning there like some outrageous insect, is the cause of all our misery to-day.

Instead of living from the spontaneous centers, we live from the head.

We chew, chew, chew at some theory, some idea.

We grind, grind, grind in our mental consciousness, till we are beside ourselves.