The Light of the East October 1940

That idea was back of the League of Nations and the recent talk about the United States of Europe and the Union of Churches. [...] There was no religious leader to dictate to the people but to quote the words of Macaulay : " The work was begun by King Henry the murderer of his wives continued by his Somerset the murderer of his brother and completed by Elizabeth the murderer of her guest." In a word Royalty enforced the reformation in Enland against popular resistance. [...] The spirit of Christ is the spirit of unity ; the spirit of the world is the spirit of dissension and discord. [...] Like the nudist and the vegetarian the pacifist commits the fallacy of Adamism—of neglecing the difference between the world and Eden. [...] To-day if one talks about the sanctity of property one's hearers are sure to assume that one is defending the particular distribution of property which obtains at the present time a distribution which is manifesly indefensible and unjust and under which a tiny minority of the population own the vast majority of the property and the great majority of the population possess to all intents a