I attempted to speak, but he began
again with the same rippling rapidity.
"You will say that Pidge also admits government in that tenth chapter
so easily misunderstood. Bolger has attacked Pidge on those lines.
But Bolger has no scientific training. Bolger is a psychometrist,
but no sociologist. To any one who has combined a study of Pidge with
the earlier and better discoveries of Kruxy, the fallacy is quite clear.
Bolger confounds social coercion with coercional social action."
His rapid rattling mouth shut quite tight suddenly, and he looked
steadily and triumphantly at me, with his head on one side.
I opened my mouth, and the mere motion seemed to sting him to
fresh verbal leaps.
"Yes," he said, "that's all very well. The Finland Group has
accepted Bolger. But," he said, suddenly lifting a long finger as
if to stop me, "but--Pidge has replied. His pamphlet is published.
He has proved that Potential Social Rebuke is not a weapon of
the true Anarchist. He has shown that just as religious authority
and political authority have gone, so must emotional authority
and psychological authority. He has shown--"
I stood up in a sort of daze. "I think you remarked,"
I said feebly, "that the mere common populace do not quite
understand Anarchism"--"Quite so," he said with burning swiftness;
"as I said, they think any Anarchist is a man with a bomb, whereas--"
"But great heavens, man!" I said; "it's the man with the bomb that
I understand! I wish you had half his sense.
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