And The Men That Were Boys When

Writing Itself Is A Bad Enough Trade, Rightly Held Up To Ridicule And Contempt By The Greater Part Of Mankind, And Especially By Those Who Do Real Work, Plowing, Riding, Sailing

Will Not Perhaps The Temporal Power Of Islam Return And With It The Menace Of An Armed Mohammedan World, Which Will Shake Off The Domination Of Europeans - Still Nominally Christian - And Reappear As The Prime Enemy Of Our Civilization? The Future Always Comes As A Surprise, But Political Wisdom Consists In Attempting At Least Some Partial Judgment Of What That Surprise May Be. And For My Part I Cannot But Believe That A Main Unexpected Thing Of The Future Is The Return Of Islam.

The Reformation Has Been Called In A Biting Epigram "a Rising Of The Rich Against The Poor."

Communism Worked Honestly By Officials Devoid Of Human Frailties And Devoted To Nothing But The Good Of Its Slaves, Would Have Certain Manifest Material Advantages As Compared With A Proletarian Wage-system Where Millions Live In Semi-starvation, And Many Millions More In Permanent Dread Thereof. But Even If It Were Administered Thus Communism Would Only Produce Its Benefits Through Imposing Slavery.

The Catholic Church Is An Institution I Am Bound To Hold Divine - But For Unbelievers A Proof Of Its Divinity Might Be Found In The Fact That No Merely Human Institution Conducted With Such Knavish Imbecility Would Have Lasted A Fortnight.