AustLit

Epigraph:

“Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he [the terrorist] has severed every link with the

social order and the civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that

world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose: to destroy it.”

—Sergei Nechayev, nineteenth-century Russian pamphleteer,

blackmailer and catechist of exterminationism

“Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the

government of any other.”

—John Adams