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Quote by Honoré de Balzac
English (Source)
In the beginning, power was above all materialistic, raw, crude; only later, when it had become more concentrated, did the ruling elements break up the primordial unified power. Thus, for example, in the most ancient times power belonged to the theocracy; the priest held the pallos and the censer. Later, power was already divided between the high priest and the king. Today, in our society, at this height of human culture, power has already been distributed to such an extent that we call power, which expresses itself in different ways, sometimes as industry, sometimes as thought, sometimes as money or words. Power, no longer having its unity, leads to social decay, limited only by interests. Therefore, let us no longer rely on faith or material power, but on reason. Is the book worth the pallos? Is the debate worth the action?