Armaments; Extremely Useful For Fighting Wars, A

If Allowed To Run Free Of The Social System, Capitalism Will Attempt To Corrupt And Undermine Democracy, Which Is After All Not A Natural State.

Pessimism: A Valuable Protection Against Quackery.

A Foreigner Is An Individual Who Is Considered Either Comic Or Sinister. When The Victim Of A Disaster - Preferably Natural But Sometimes Political -the Foreigner May Also Be Pitied From A Distance For A Short Period Of Time.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

There Is Something Silly About Grown Men And Women Striving To Reduce Their Vision Of Themselves And Of Civilization To Bean Counting.