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 defend from me. Nor can they defend themselves, if I choose to kill them.

"It is amusing—is it not?—how society organizes and over-organizes and superorganizes itself to make an instrument which puts the whole organization absolutely at the mercy of a man like me.

"When they developed the automobile, they almost destroyed themselves; for they put it in the power of a few men, with nerve and imagination, to strike in sudden bold raids and rob and kill them at pleasure and to laugh at pursuit.

"With the greatest difficulty, society doubled and quadrupled its police force and hired and trained highway officers and special guards in their cities in an attempt to make society safe from the few—only very few men, indeed—operating against it in automobiles; but society, as an organized structure, began to stagger. Then it went on and provided the airplane, putting a hundred times, a thousand times the power in the hands of—me.

"The childish organization of cheering sheep—which composes organized society and which