More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They suspect it they have heard of the event by chance.
They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place.
The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. There are some nations in Europe whose inhabitants think of themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. “What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish when it sleeps, everything must also sleep and when it dies, everything must also perish?
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