Note 438 — Chapter VI · JOHN WILKES, VICTOR BERGER, AND THE FIVE MEMBERS

Tolstoy once wrote: “You would not believe how, from the very commencement of my activity, that horrible Censor question has tormented me! I wanted to write what I felt; but at the same time it occurred to me that what I wrote would not be permitted, and involuntarily I had to abandon the work. I abandoned, and went on abandoning, and meanwhile the years passed away.”—Graham Wallas, The Great Society, 196.