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This Is A Big World. Billions - Rapidly Increasing Billions - Of People Live Outside Our Borders. Obviously, A Great Number Of Them, Being Much Poorer Than They Think Most Of Us Are, Look Enviously Over Those Borders And Would Like, If They Could, To Come Here.

We Should Not Lose Ourselves In Vainglorious Sohemes For Changing Human Nature All Over The Planet. Rather, We Should Learn To View Ourselves With A Sense Of Proportion And Christian Humility Before The Enormous Complexity Of The World In Which It Has Been Given Us To Live.

Fig Leaves Of Democratic Procedure To Hide The Nakedness Of Stalinist Dictatorship.

I Lived, Particularly In Childhood But With Lessening Intensity Right On To Middle Age, In A World That Was Peculiarly And Intimately My Own, Scarcely To Be Shared With Others Or Even Made Plausible To Them. I Habitually Read Special Meanings Into Things, Scenes And Places Qualities Of Wonder, Beauty, Promise, Or Horror For Which There Was No External Evidence Visible Or Plausible To Others. My World Was Peopled With Mysteries, Seductive Hints, Vague Menaces, "intimations Of Immortality.

World Communism Is Like [a] Malignant Parasite Which Feeds On Diseased Tissue