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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so also destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and the practical means....

Every man is followed by a shadow which is his death - dark, featureless and mute. And for everyman there is a place where his shadow is clarified and is made his reflection...He becomes the follower of what pursued him. What hounded his tracks becomes his companion - p. 30