Certainty about how people should live licenses flattening the terrain instead of working within it, and the historical signature of that certainty is the removal of contradictions by removing the people who embody them.

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  Positive liberty, in this book, has been hedgehogs trying to herd foxes. the older Pericles, Julius Caesar, Augustine, Philip II, George III, Napoleon, Wilson, and the twentieth-century totalitarians, all of whom knew with such certainty how the world worked, that they preferred flattening topographies to functioning within them. That flattened people, allowing only ranges of freedoms extending from, at best, disillusionment o

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