| I now perceive why all men are the deadly and
uncompromising enemies of the rattlesnake: it is merely because the rattlesnake
has not speech. Monarchy has speech, and by it has been able to persuade
man that it differs somehow from the rattlesnake, has something valuable
about it somewhere, something worth preserving, something even good and
high and fine, when properly "modified," something entitling it
to protection from the club of the first comer who catches it out of its
hole. - An unpublished letter on the Czar, 1890 |
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