Spencer Heath Archive

Item 732

Pencil by Heath on back of an envelope.

1930s?

     Henry George taught that ten men had ten times as much physical power as one — it could be added. But not so of mental power. Ten men with the same thought had no more mental or intellectual power than any one of them had. So —

     When the School makes many think as one man thinks, they will have many times the physical (political) power but not any more intellectual power.

     Yes,  Unless right thinking leads to right action without resort to force.

See Franz Oppenheimer in The State.