[The Mirrors of Downing Street by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mirrors of Downing Street CHAPTER XIV 6/13
She has ceased to preach, even with the dying embers of conviction, that a man may gain the whole world and yet lose his soul alive. * * * * * A responsibility hardly to be exceeded by that of aristocracy rests upon the leaders of Labour.
Every voice raised to encourage the economic delusions of Socialism is a voice on the side of vulgarity and irreligion.
Most of the leaders of Labour know perfectly well that economic Socialism is impossible, but by not saying so with honest courage they commit a grave sin, a sin not only against society but against God.
For democracy in England, once the most sensible and kind-hearted democracy in Europe, is placing its faith more and more in the power of wages to buy happiness, turning away with more and more impatience from the divine truth that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. It is a grievous thing to corrupt the mind of the simple.
Democracy in England has been the chief representative of veritable Englishness up to these days.
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