Does he therefore think of revolution as a remedy? No. For first of all, he distrusts the people: “When the people undertake to reason, all is lost.”182 The great majority are always too busy to perceive the truth until change has made the truth an error; and their intellectual history is merely the replacement of one myth by another. “When an old error is established, politics uses it as a morsel which the people have put into their own mouths, until another superstition comes along to destroy this one, and politics profits from the second error as it did from the first.”
