Modern Review May 1932

It is the meeting of two twilights one heralding the glory and splendour of sunrise and the bustle of life and the other ushering in the gloom and murkiness of night and the stillness of death. [...] The erect body bends like a reed in the wind the vigour of youth and the alertness of the prime of life give way to the decrepitude of old age the senses and the faculties begin to flag and fail memory lapses and becomes a blur and man the vaunted lord of creation becomes a doddering Pitiful object helpless as a blind kitten ttaTified by the fearsomeness of approaching deAth. [...] ICeither the ecstasy of the martyr at the burnin g stake nor the shrinking terror of the murderer at the foot of the scaffold represent& the correct attitude towards death. [...] The axe is the symbol of the authority of the State and recalls the old Roman tradition of nutliority and the reign of law and order. [...] Fascism believes that the salvation of a race depends on its proper formation of character and the solution of all problems both social and economic demands first the renuneiation of materialism secondly the development of a balanced character in the individual thirdly. the development of a stronger sense of social Solidarity and lastly the ruralization of civilization and it believes that