The Choice Lies Between Property On The

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.

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There Are Few Greater Temptations On Earth Than To Stay Permanently At Oxford In Meditation, And To Read All The Books In The Bodlean.

One Man In One Mood Will Attack Industrial Capitalism For Its Destruction Of Beauty; Another For Its Incompetence; Another For The Vileness Of The Men Who Chiefly Prosper Under It; Another For Its Mere Confusion And Noise; Another For Its False Values; It Was Until Recently Most Fiercely Attacked For Its Impoverishment Of The Workers, Its Margin Of Unemployment And The Rest - Indeed So Fiercely That It Was Compelled To Seek Palliatives For The Evil. With A Mass Of Men It Was Attacked From A Vague But Strong Sense Of Injustice; It Allowed A Few Rich To Exploit Mankind.

Capitalism Had Arisen Through The Misuse And Exaggeration Of Certain Rights, Notably The Right Of Property - The Basis Of Economic Freedom - And The Right Of Contract, Which Is One Of The Main Functions Of Economic Freedom. Therefore, Even Under Capitalism, So Long As The Old Principles Were Remembered It Was Possible To Recall The Principles Whereby Society Had Once Been Sane And Well Ordered.