Religion and Science."

Now this is not a healthy state of things. The advantages of
living in society are proportionate, not to the freedom of the
individual from a code, but to the complexity and subtlety of the
code he is prepared not only to accept but to uphold as a matter
of such vital importance that a lawbreaker at large is hardly to
be tolerated on any plea. Such an attitude becomes impossible
when the only men who can make themselves heard and remembered
throughout the world spend all their energy in raising our gorge
against current law, current morality, current respect
ability, and legal property. The ordinary man, uneducated in
social theory even when he is schooled in Latin verse, cannot be
set against all the laws of his country and yet persuaded to
regard law in the abstract as vitally necessary to society. Once
he is brought to repudiate the laws and institutions he knows, he
will repudiate the very conception of law and the very groundwork
of institutions, ridiculing human rights, extolling brainless
methods as "historical," and tolerating nothing except pure
empiricism in conduct, with dynamite as the basis of politics and
vivisection as the basis of science. That is hideous; but what is
to be done? Here am I, for instance, by class a respectable man,
by common sense a hater of waste and disorder, by intellectual
constitution legally minded to the verge of pedantry, and by
temperament apprehensive and economically disposed to the limit
of old-maidishness; yet I am, and have always been, and shall now
always be, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law
impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is
organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our
wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes,