In order to appreciate England, one had to have a certain contempt for logic, and all the misunderstanding arose from a perverted idea of the true function of thinking. Unless one learned how to live and adjust one~ self to changing circumstances, all thinking would be futile. The brain's frst function. to sense danger! trid preserve life. The type of thinking which helped one to get food get along in a life was really a higher form of thinking. called com nonsense.. The English people thought, but never "allowed them: the Fight thing at. the right moment. She always fought the right war, and always called it by the wrong name by giving wrong reasons. for it. That might. be called muddling-through and inconsistency, but at the bottom of it was robust commonsense and a healthy instinct for lite.
The British Empire Take the amazing British Empire, still the greatest in the world. How did the English people do it? By an entire absence of logical reasoning: The British Empire stil stood because the Englishman still believed that his ways were the only correct ways, and he could not tolerate anyone who did not conform to his standards, When pirates' were necessary for her expansion, England was able to produce the "necessary number to meet the situation and glorified them, [When the industrial revolution called {for colonial markets, she developed Jan instinct for founding colonies. [Kipling soon discovered the "white jman's burden," and the consciousness Jot this burden helped the Englishmen through as nothing else would.
Yet it might be thought that this fore not going to endanger peace in the Orient by discussing problems of the Pacifte.
So he was going to speak about the white man, but they need not be scared, as he was not going to tell the" truth—at Toast not' the whole truth. No one could deny, he continued, that Europe was in a mess, and the question was, what made peace so dificult in Europe? He considered that Europe was still domin-ted not by intelligence, but by the animal passions of fear and revenge.
there were a. supreme 'Head Intelligence to-day at Europe's head. Ht would not be what it is. "But mod: erin Europe was being ruled by three men with big and powerful jaws—Mussolini, Hitler, and Statin. Some faces. were' like triangles, with the broae base situated below, and these were: the faces of the dictators; others were life inverted triangles, and were the faces of the thinkers—Bertrand Russell, for example, But what was ight for one nation @as not right for the other, Germany could swear allegiance to "God and Hitler," but if an English Naal party were to wear allegiance to "God and Bertrand Russell," Russell would die of shame, So long as Europe was con-{ent fo be ruled by men with big and powerful jays, it must eqntinue along fis present lines of development and head for the abyss.
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