I have already compared this, our desire to worship incompetence, to an infectious disease. It has attacked the State at the very core, in its constitution, and it is not surprising that it is spreading rapidly to the customs and to the morals of the country.[1]
Émile Faguet, The Cult of Incompetence (1910)
[1] Émile Faguet, The Cult of Incompetence, tr. Beatrice Barstow (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916), p. 123 [Bibliolife Reprint]. Originally published as Le Culte de l’Incompétence in 1910.
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