Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know I was one of them.
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.