It is not only in regard to amusements that men have grown passive, but also in regard to all those forms of skill and all those departments of knowledge in which they are not themselves experts. ... On most matters he does not trouble to have opinions at all, since he is convinced that they can safely be left to those whose special study or experience entitles them to speak with authority.
Source: Are we too passive? (written in Feb. 3, 1932 and published in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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