“When equality is treated not as a medicine or a safety-gadget, but as an ideal, we begin to breed that stunted and envious sort of mind which hates all superiority. That mind is the special disease of democracy, as cruelty and servility are the special diseases of privileged societies. It will kill us all if it grows unchecked. ….
Equality
“Equality” is reprinted from The Spectator, vol. CLXXI (27 August 1943), p. 192
