Removed

Let all possible causes of a change of mind be removed from men's apprehension. Let them be kept ignorant, lest they should learn of some reason to think otherwise than they do. Let their passions be enlisted, so that they may regard ... unusual opinions with hatred and horror. Then, let all men who reject the established belief be terrified into silence .... Let a list of opinions be drawn up to which no man of the least independence of thought can assent, and let the faithful be required to accept all these propositions in order to segregate them as radically as possible from the influence of the rest of the world

--Charles Pierce, article, "The Fixation Of Belief"
Popular Science Monthly, November, 1877

Quoted in John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", p. 172