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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for November 2025:

Classic:
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1816.

Direct:
The culmination of a mass society is rule by some charismatic demagogue, a ranting savior whom followers believe can magically set things right. Politics is reduced to personalities, and there is less concern for law than for faith.
— First Sociology, 1982.

Garden moment for November 2025:

The main autumn display at the Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse: mums, begonias, kale, and (probably best of all) love lies bleeding.

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