Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see. . . with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate. . . Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
adore, v. t. To venerate expectantly.
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
