“IN Old Testament times only kings and priests were anointed, a practice faithfully followed in Christendom. Each in his own sphere is alter Christus, one as King, the other as Priest. No President has ever been accorded this dignity from on high. The contrivers of Revolution, knowing their program does not truly conform to natural law, are aware it is deeply repugnant to human nature. What to do? Rousseau, again, gave the bald answer in La Nouvelle Heloise:
“He who dares to undertake the making of a people’s institutions ought to feel himself capable, so to speak, of changing human nature, of transforming each individual, who is by himself a complete and solitary whole, into part of a greater whole … of altering man’s constitution for the purpose of strengthening it and of substituting a partial and moral existence for the physical and independent existence nature has conferred on us all. He must, in a word, take away from man his own resources and give him new ones alien to him.
“So runs the utopian dream of all revolutionaries from the devil on down, for without such a program no artificial government could subsist long. It explains brain-washing, social engineering, transactional analysis, cursillo, compulsory education, much of psychiatric practice and all the other tools of the superstate for the moral and spiritual butchery by which natural man is put into unnatural shape. The State no longer conforms to human nature as God created it, but human nature to the state as man created it.”
— Solange Hertz, The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism
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