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Politicians Get Their Power Too Late, And I Think That He Has Inherited An Impossible Situation In Which He Is Ill-equipped To Deal.

I Simply Make This Point, That The Monarchy In So Far, As It Is Identified With What Is, In My Opinion, An Obsolete Class Structure, Is Making A Mistake, And The Task Of Those Who Are Responsible For The Conduct Of The Monarchical Institution Is To Detach It From That Class Structure.

People Think Of Faith As Being Something That You Don't Really Believe, A Device In Helping You Believe Simply It. Of Course That Is Quite Wrong. As Pascal Says, Faith Is A Gift Of God. It Is Different From The Proof Of It. It Is The Kind Of Faith God Himself Places In The Heart, Of Which The Proof Is Often The Instrument... He Says Of It, Too, That It Is The Heart Which Is Aware Of God, And Not Reason. That Is What Faith Is: God Perceived By The Heart, Not Be Reason.

One Of The Great Weaknesses Of The Progressive, As Distinct From The Religious, Mind, Is That It Has No Awareness Of Truth As Such; Only Of Truth In Terms Of Enlightened Expediency. The Contrast Is Well Exemplified In Two Exact Contemporaries - Simone Weil And Simone De Beauvoir; Both Highly Intelligent And Earnestly Disposed. In All The Fearful Moral Dilemmas Of Our Time, Simone Weil Never Once Went Astray, Whereas Simone De Beauvoir, With I Am Sure The Best Of Intentions, Has Found Herself Aligned With Apologists For Some Of The Most Monstrous Barbarities And Falsehoods Of History.

It's The Circumstances Of Popular Monarchy, The Manner In Which It's Developed, And It Is Also The Fault Of The People Who Present Her With This Unquestioning Adulation. In Other Words, It's Their Lack Of A Larger Faith. Which Makes Them Fasten Onto, A Purely Earthly Symbol.