“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
