if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not bethat only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers (and notgovernments o
It's interesting to see how ideology is diffused through society. Is the role of congress and other officials overstated in this diffusion process if the average citizen isn't aware of current political thought?
when ideas are neglected by thosewho ought to attend to them—that is to say, those who have beentrained to think critically about ideas—they sometimes acquire anunchecked momentum and an irresistible power over multitudesof men that may grow too violent to be affected by rational criti-cism.
the author here is alluding to the few intelligent elite having power over the masses and how "rationality" is liberating