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A Capitalist Economy Hums When Leading Businessmen Are Bubbling With Animal Spirits And Are Prepared To Sink Their Money Into Risky Ventures.

The Urge To Distribute Wealth Equally, And Still More The Belief That It Can Be Brought About By Political Action, Is The Most Dangerous Of All Popular Emotions. It Is The Legitimation Of Envy, Of All The Deadly Sins The One Which A Stable Society Based On Consensus Should Fear The Most. The Monster State Is A Source Of Many Evils; But It Is, Above All, An Engine Of Envy.

The Richness And Variety, And Indeed The Advance, Of Our Culture Depend Upon The Continuation Of This Conflict [between Conservatives And Radicals], Which Is Deeply Rooted In Human Nature.

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

If We Want Foxes, To Observe And Delight In, We Must Have Hunting.