[4] The real wonder is that any of us - in spite of all interior resistances and exterior discouragements - should welcome and see through to the end the work of demolition. It always was a tiny minority who have this urge, and their numbers show few signs of growing rapidly. Are they naive ones who, remaining in touch with their faceless childhood, never quite grew up; or sadly inadequate ones so hurt by life that a sort of death would seem a relief; or doubting ones for whom our language and beliefs - and specially the religious sort - are a dubious and ill-founded system of defenses against
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