Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal.
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How we who have little belief envy those who are convinced of the existence of a Supreme Power, for whom the world holds no problems because He Himself has created all its institutions!
The secular power, on the contrary, was in the hands of kings and barons of Teutonic descent, who endeavoured to preserve what they could of the institutions that they had brought out of the forests of Germany. Absolute power was alien to those institutions, and so was what appeared to these vigorous conquerors as a dull and spiritless legality. The king had to share his power with the feudal aristocracy.
A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
