ICONOCLAST

The Devil's Dictionary · 1911 · p. 151
n : A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuild eth but doth not reédify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: “Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depre the eae of him a sit thereon till he squawk it.” IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. 151
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