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Anarchy comes from error and half-belief, not from honest inquiry
Drawn from what Thomas Carlyle said
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- Thomas Carlyle Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881)
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half-belief and untruth that make it.
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↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org
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