![]() ![]() ![]() This ad hominem attack (“lump of dirt”, etc.) goes on to criticize a few other groups, before going on to suggest that only a few (“heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense”) serve the state with their consciences and/or resist it, but are commonly treated as enemies. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. ![]() ![]() “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellsion ( Galaxy, December 1965) 1 starts off with a quote by Thoreau for those who “need points sharply made” (e.g. ![]()
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