-December 16, 1905, Daily News
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Artificial Conflict
But the main character of these questions is
that they divide people wrongly. They set up an opposition that does
not exist, and so avoid, very often, the formidable opposition that does
exist. The nameless and ancestral enemy that desires to eat our swords
with rust and seal our eyes with an evil slumber, the primal cowardice
that is older than the hills, has no way more effective than this
artificial conflict for bringing about its peace, the peace of Satan
that passes all understanding. It desires a false unity; and to make
assurance doubly sure, it creates a false division. It sets men fighting
about nothing, lest they should fight about something. This is half the
secret of the political aristocracy of England.
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