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in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from 

 the past in the " Ghosts " which oppress us. But to 

 some extent they lie also taking society as a whole 

 in our phenomenal ignorance. We civilised men and 

 women know everything, we have settled opinions upon 

 everything, we take an interest in everything. We only 

 know nothing about whence the bread comes which we 

 eat even though we pretend to know something about 

 that subject as well we do not know how it is grown, 

 what pains it costs to those who grow it, what is being 

 done to reduce their pains, what sort of men those 

 feeders of our grand selves are ... we are more ig- 

 norant than savages in this respect, and we prevent our 

 children from obtaining this sort of knowledge even 

 those of our children who would prefer it to the heaps 

 of useless stuff with which they are crammed at school 



