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This is the outline I made after our meeting with McPhail

-Carlyle- Sprenger connection

-Two sides of Governor Eyre debate- Carlyle vs. Mill- Woolf’s comments

-“If you’re not with us, you’re against us” idea of Levy in relation to Carlyle and Mill branches- does Woolf fall against Carlyle but not with Mill?

-Woolf’s arguments against fascism- outline specifically

And this is more what we talked about today

-background on Mill branch

-background on Carlyle/Galton branch

-connection of Woolf to Mill

-connection of Woolf to Carlyle/Galton

it's not very specific, we'd probably talk about the mention of the Jamaica Committee, the distrust of experts, and the several pages referencing Carlyle directly, just as a starting point for comparisons.

Carlyle - Fascism

Carlyle:

• Scottish Calvinist
• believed in the necessity of Heroes and hero worship
• blamed the Jewish people for social problems without providing any real evidence
• conducted experiments to prove Jewish inferiority and drew conclusions from assumed ideas
• used hatred and bias to unite
• believed that lesser people needed guidance from their superiors to stay human, if not they would degenerate to animals

What Woolfe says about Fascism:

• relies on charismatic, emotional, passionate leader
• requires that people give up on rational thought and blindly accept the word of the state
• depends on people's primal urges