Vol 5

This is an appendix to: How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 15

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"I do not think the danger before us is anarchy, but despotism, the loss of spiritual freedom, the totalitarian state, perhaps a universal world totalitarian state. [18]"

"And, as an alternative to anarchy, the World would welcome the despotic state. [18]"

"Greek science did not find the Ptolemaic realm an uncongenial environment, and I think, generally speaking, natural science may flourish under a despotism. [18]"

"and, while this his- torical fact may not reveal the whole truth about the Indian Civil Service itself, or foreshadow its ultimate destiny as an Indian insti- tution, it may still serve to remind us that our own Western Society, in its Modern and its Post-Modern Age, has displayed other types in its governing class besides those of the war-lord and the despot and the capitalist. [57]"

"For the subsequent replacement of both the adoptive republicanism and the indigenous monarchical institu- tions of the North European barbarians bevond the Roman pale by a new military despotism, which was one of the products of the barbarians’ reaction to the challenge of me Roman limes, see V. C (i) (d) 7, vol. vi, p. 4, footnote 4 [222];

"This fills me with resentment and with envy of those ancient kings and despots who were enthusiasts for the science. [433]"

"In these backward marches, ‘Under the enlightened, if despotic, rule of Marshal Marmont, the long stagnation of the Middle Ages was replaced by feverish activity in every branch of life. [646]"

"So far as can be seen, Ikhnaton’s attempt to establish this new religion of his was not inspired to any appreciable extent either by Machiavellian con- siderations of raison d'etat or by Elagabalus’s motive of exerting a despotic power and indulging a personal caprice. [704]"

"There appears to be ground for believing that the propagation of Orphism received its first impulse from the Athenian despots of the House of Peisi- stratus,⁵ who saw in this ‘fancy religion’ an apt instrument for their policy of confirming their political hold upon Attica by satisfying the diverse requirements of the formerly unprivileged classes in the Athenian body politic; [706-707]"

"6), of the circumstances in which—in a later chapter of his career— the Attic theologian came to second his Peisistratid patrons in the house of exile at Susa in their successful efforts to confirm the Achaemenian emperor Xerxes in his project of attempting the conquest of European Greece—a project in which the ci-devant despots of Athens, as well as their Aleuad companions in misfortune who had once been the masters of Thessaly, saw a hope of their own restoration to the lordship from which they had been ejected by their former subjects. [707]"

"For this offence Hipparchus had sent Onomacritus into exile—in a revulsion from the perpetual recourse which the despot had been by way of having to the theologian’s services. [707]"