Next To Courage, Willpower Is The Most

In The Long Term, It Is Desirable That The Human Race, Faced With The Prospect Of Extinction On Earth, Should Prepare An Escape Route For Itself To Another Inhabitable Planet.

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 Second World War Took Place Not So Much Because No One Won The First, But Because The Versailles Treaty Did Not Acknowledge This Truth.

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.

Scanning The Newspapers And Absorbing With A Mixture Of Incredulity And Indignation The Enormities They Report, I Conclude That What England Lacks Today Is, Quite Simply, Sense.