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Now his father is the demus, and if the demus gets angry, and

says that a great hulking son ought not to be a burden on his

parents, and bids him and his riotous crew begone, then will the

parent know what a monster he has been nurturing, and that the

son whom he would fain expel is too strong for him. 'You do not

mean to say that he will beat his father?' Yes, he will, after

having taken away his arms. 'Then he is a parricide and a cruel,

unnatural son.' And the people have jumped from the fear of

slavery into slavery, out of the smoke into the fire. Thus

liberty, when out of all order and reason, passes into the worst

form of servitude...