34/40 He marked with satisfaction the attentiveness of his audience. The leader in Liberalism is the man imbued with scientific truth, and capable of applying it to the every day details of government. Science, I said, teaches hierarchic order--that is, the rule of the few, of the select, the divinely appointed. But this hierarchy is an open order--open to the select of every rank; a process of perpetual renewal will maintain the health of the political organism. The true polity is only in slow formation; for, obviously, human reason is not yet a complete development. |