The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won’t allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it’s original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all,...

A Provincial Tale”)