Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
“Another and earlier form of this reversion to barbarism in the West was Rousseau's gospel of the 'return to nature' and the exaltation of 'the noble savage'... The fundamental gospel of archaism was condensed into a sentence, the opening of Rousseau's Social Contract: 'Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.' Rousseau's most famous disciple was Robespierre, principal author of the french 'Reign of Terror.' ... This idealizing of the primitive pagan 'Nordic' race cannot entirely disclaim responsibility for the Nazi terror”
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