“Free thought, free speech—is that too much to ask?” “It’s a bloody great deal to ask, and you know it,” Condé said glumly. “The pity of it is, I hear such stuff from my peers. Elegant ideas for a social re-ordering. Pleasing plans for a ‘community of reason.’ And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear. It’ll end in revolution. And that’ll be no tea party.”
