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natural aptitude, exceptional opportunities, and freedom from
the preoccupations of bread-winning, what are we to expect from
the parliament man to whom political science is as remote and
distasteful as the differential calculus, and to whom such an
elementary but vital point as the law of economic rent is a pons
asinorum never to be approached, much less crossed?  Or from the
common voter who is mostly so hard at work all day earning a
living that he cannot keep awake for five minutes over a book?
In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters
or any other sort of masters:  it can only be lamed and enslaved
by them.  It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again
wash itself.  This may or may not be true:  what is certain is
that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if
you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the
next time it attacks him.  Therefore, if you want to see a cat
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