a quote from whom?

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:44 PM, j.martin.pedersen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> "Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy
> name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to
> the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of
> human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his
> insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how
> can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every
> heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?"
-- 
Jim DevineĀ / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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