"Corrigibility" Quotes from Famous Books
... in spite of a certain innate moderation, a wholly non-political mind. He lived too much outside of practical reality, and thought too naively of the corrigibility of mankind, to realize the difficulties and necessities of government. His ideas about a good administration were extremely primitive, and, as is often the case with scholars of a strong ethical bias, very revolutionary at bottom, though he never ... — Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga |