"There is nothing but violence in the universe; but we are spoiled by a modern philosophy that tells us all is good, whereas evil has tainted everything, and in a very real sense, all is evil, since nothing is in its place."
Joseph de Maistre

January 1, 1970

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Chapter III, p. 31

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