author - "Walter Lippmann"
or Roosevelt, everything evil originated in theKaiser Wilhelm, Lenin and Trotsky. They were as omnipotent for evil asthe heroes were omnipotent for good. To many simple and frightenedminds there was no political reverse, no strike, no obstruction, nomysterious death or mysterious conflagration anywhere in the world ofwhich the causes did not wind back to these personal sources of evil.
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Worldwide concentration of this kind on a symbolic personality is rareenough to be clearly remarkable, and every author has a weakness forthe striking and irrefutable example. The vivisection of war revealssuch examples, but it does not make them out of nothing. In a morenormal public life, symbolic pictures are no less governant ofbehavior, but each symbol is far less inclusive because there are somany competing ones. Not only is each symbol charged with less feelingbecause at most it represents only a part of the population, but evenwithin that part there is infinitely less suppression of individualdiff
or Roosevelt, everything evil originated in theKaiser Wilhelm, Lenin and Trotsky. They were as omnipotent for evil asthe heroes were omnipotent for good. To many simple and frightenedminds there was no political reverse, no strike, no obstruction, nomysterious death or mysterious conflagration anywhere in the world ofwhich the causes did not wind back to these personal sources of evil.
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Worldwide concentration of this kind on a symbolic personality is rareenough to be clearly remarkable, and every author has a weakness forthe striking and irrefutable example. The vivisection of war revealssuch examples, but it does not make them out of nothing. In a morenormal public life, symbolic pictures are no less governant ofbehavior, but each symbol is far less inclusive because there are somany competing ones. Not only is each symbol charged with less feelingbecause at most it represents only a part of the population, but evenwithin that part there is infinitely less suppression of individualdiff