Others love it, and are never so happy as whenthey
are in it or on it or looking at it. What could I or anyone do with a man like that?
But of course you didnt: one cant ask ones father anythingabout himself. Now, what
control have you or I over the Services? The rest are in parliament because they
canafford it and have a fancy for it or an interest in it.
But it is a curious fact thatthey never
do.
Only, it was not the people thatrose up and killed
them. Now corporate action is impossible without a governing body.
Well, as best we can, with the sort of
governmentthat our present system produces. Everyone who saw them doing it
immediately joined in the rush.
I once saw a real popular movement inLondon. I
should thenbe in no danger of electing a postman and finding that he couldneither
read nor write.
Only, it was not the people thatrose up and killed
them. What I should like is a real test of their capacity.
I have used mine a few times to see what it is
like.
My dear Sem: one isnt alone on an uninhabited
island. That question cannot beanswered until we have explained what we mean by
getting along. But we repudiate Number Threeon the ground that the people cannot
govern. I could not believe that Gattie had any works,except in his fervid
imagination. Besides, modern government is not a one-man job: it is too big
forthat.
They cannot evenmake an extension of the Tube
railway in London without Governmentaid. They were dispatched quite privately by
avery select circle of their own bodyguards. We need a central authority to
co-ordinate the federalwork.
Nowadays this is called direct action by the
revolutionaryproletariat. But we repudiate Number Threeon the ground that the people
cannot govern. But neither themoney nor the enterprise was available just then, with
the war onour hands. Our big capitalist enterprises now run to theGovernment for
help as a lamb runs to its mother.
If Paul had been a lieutenant in a lineregiment we
should never have heard of him.
If Paul had been a lieutenant in a lineregiment we
should never have heard of him.