Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.