‘Day thought he could ‘get back at’ the women who had hurt him by mucking around with instinctual gender distinctions’

Back in the 18th century…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one:

For someone who claimed to be guided by reason and the intellect, he was blind to the havoc his unresolved anger was wreaking on innocent bystanders.

The totalitarian instinct that has typified progressive thought for centuries is a scary thing to behold, even on the smaller scale of one wealthy aristocrat’s life and property.

The reasons I personally love and cherish concepts such as liberty and free enterprise can be gleaned from such stories as Thomas Day’s.

One of those reasons is simple: one person with too much power can ruin the lives of countless others simply because he or she had a bad experience or feels bad about themselves.