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Maritain, Jacques
On the Use of Philosophy, 12/2015Book Chapter
Oliberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!” Madame Roland said, mounting the scaffold. O Truth, it may be said, how often blind violence and oppression have been let loose in thy name in the course of history! “Zeal for truth,” as Father Victor White puts it, “has too often been a cloak for the most evil and revolting of human passions.”¹ As a result, some people think that in order to set human existence free from these evil passions, and make men live in peace and pleasant quiet, the best way is to get rid of any zeal
