“Not surprisingly, humanistic education produces not only a proliferation of sin but of mental problems and serious personality disorders.”
R. J. Rushdoony
Education for Freedom
[Reprinted from The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1985), 153-157.]
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“On occasion, the leader may be intelligent and highly educated but the possession of these qualities does him, as a rule, more harm than good. By showing how complex things are, by allowing of explanation and promoting comprehension, intelligence always renders its owner indulgent, and blunts, in a large measure, that intensity and violence of conviction needed for apostles.
The great leaders of crowds of all ages, and those of the French Revolution in particular, have been of lamentably narrow intellect; while it is precisely those whose intelligence have been the most restricted who have exercised the greatest influence.”
Gustave Le Bon
The Crowd — pg. 194
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“The current idea is that a Southern plantation was generally a great estate, teeming with Black slaves who groaned under the lash of drivers and at night were scourged in their dungeons, while their masters reveled in ill-used luxury and steeped themselves in licentiousness, not stopping at times to ‘traffic in their own flesh and blood.’
It may well be said at the outset that nothing could be further from the truth…. The great majority of the plantations in Virginia, and, so far as my reading and observation have gone, elsewhere, however extensive were the lands, were modest and simple, and the relation between masters and servants was one of close personal acquaintance and friendliness, beginning at the cradle and scarcely ending at the grave.”
Thomas Nelson Page
“The Negro; the Southerner’s Problem” — pg. 112
Published 1904
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File this under the “Might makes right” category.
“The questions which have hitherto divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections — slavery and State-rights, or the right of the State to secede from the Union — they (the South) regard as having been settled forever by the HIGHEST TRIBUNAL, THAT OF ARMS, that man can resort to.”
General U. S. Grant
Reporting on the pacification of the South
December, 1865
How is that any different from Mao’s, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun?”
