We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.
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Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.
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