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An excerpt from a review on a release of Mark Twain's autobiography help back by his request until now, one hundred years after his death.
"We are always preaching the virtues of independence and tolerance", he tells us in the Autobriography, "but we tend to take our opinions from others and herd ourselves into self-protective groups. We are discreet sheep...we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove".
Listen to Twain on the subject of his generation's craven political behavior, and you will hear a voice that sounds as if it is still among us:
"Look at the candidates whom we loathe, one year, and are afraid to vote against, the next; whom we cover with unimaginable filth, one year, and fall down on the public platform and worship, the next - and keep on doing it until the habitual shutting of the eyes to last years evidences brings us presently to a sincere and stupid belief in this year's".
"We are always preaching the virtues of independence and tolerance", he tells us in the Autobriography, "but we tend to take our opinions from others and herd ourselves into self-protective groups. We are discreet sheep...we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove".
Listen to Twain on the subject of his generation's craven political behavior, and you will hear a voice that sounds as if it is still among us:
"Look at the candidates whom we loathe, one year, and are afraid to vote against, the next; whom we cover with unimaginable filth, one year, and fall down on the public platform and worship, the next - and keep on doing it until the habitual shutting of the eyes to last years evidences brings us presently to a sincere and stupid belief in this year's".