Originally appeared serially as “The American Book of Wonder” in The Saturday Evening Post.
Writes Garrett,
Freedom as we know it is a condition of ego. Prosperity is a condition of things. Increase these satisfactions to any degree and there is still that knowledge of incompleteness which torments the spirit.
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Garet Garrett
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Garet Garrett (1878–1954) was an American journalist and author who was noted for his critiques of the New Deal and US involvement in the Second World War.
[ Editor’s Note: This week, a new ruling from the US Supreme court chipped away at the administrative powers of the federal bureaucracy. The case, Loper Bright Ent. vs. Raimondo, largely overturned...
[The following is a condensation of Garet Garrett’s pamphlet The Rise of Empire , published in 1952, and included in his collection The People’s Pottage (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1953).] We have...
There are many aspects of government. The one least considered is what may be called the biological aspect, in which government is like an organism with such an instinct for growth and self-expression that if let alone it is bound to destroy human freedom — not that it might wish to do so but that it could not in nature do less. No government ever wants less government — that is, less of itself. No government ever surrenders power, even its emergency powers — not really.
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E.P. Dutton, 1928
