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June 11, 2014

I dread government in the name of science.

That is how tyrannies come in.
In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.
C.S. Lewis - Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
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Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 11, 2014 9:12 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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