Note 15 — Chapter V · RACIAL INEQUALITY IS NOT THE RESULT OF INSTITUTIONS
Adrian Collins translation
The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys;
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
Shelley, “Queen Mab.”