There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.Sounds like a much kinder description of those who, by Thomas Sowell's description, have The Vision of the Anointed, cruelly, though accurately, sub-titled, Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
The presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs
From An account of the European Settlements in America by Edmund Burke.
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