We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Animal Life Listen Need Reason Romp Way
This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Blocking Course Crucifixion Drive Frustration Impulse True Unnecessary
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Animal Believe Block Life Passive People Social
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Care Doe Less Man Own Species Use
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Authority Field Ignorant More Real
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
ABRAHAM MYERSON

Characreized Great Greatness Man Mistake Well

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