A most peculiar fallout

Almost as if outrage and anxiety,

goaded by virulent, unrelenting

cynicism and savagery, had ex-

tinguished all hope of resort to

reason in recovering the nation,

the call of Mr Sanders and a few

novices in Congress for "revolu-

tion" has seemed to precipitate

a most peculiar inference, that

extreme emotion is a substitute

for political feasibility. Yet,

for all the depredations of the

present government, its experi-

ence has only confirmed the op-

posite, at almost every turn. 

The damage that can be done in

the misuse of language is sel-

dom any match for the thrill of

taking one's turn with mocking

fact and reason. Now it is un-

derstood, that language is the

enemy against which every hyper-

heated "issue" is arrayed, for

which it must pay the price of

the extinction of definition.

Mr Sanders and his clique are

converts to what they oppose.

In every thrust of his disor-

derliness, he has turned the

word, justice, into the blunt-

est, crudest, least coherent

of all the epithets of politics,

rivaling greatness in villainy.

Sandro Botticelli
Portrait of a young man
Pitti Palace
ca 1470