He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. Individualism One can not be a traitor to anything, except to oneself. There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.