The New Review March 1942

One may take it as a rule that expert information on the essentials of the war are not available to the public ; in any given country only a few know the actual strength of the land sea and air forces the real losses in battle the rate of production the rate of wear and replacement the relative efficiency of the many types of weapons in different circumstances and so on and so forth. [...] It is in the matter of such pooling and synchronization that danger lies in the methods of a democratic war ; in the prosecution of a war even more than in the executive administration of a country the fewer the heads the better ; for pulling cart out of a rut any one way is better than many ways. [...] the power giving the interest of novelty by the modifying powers of the imagination.' If on the one hand we stretch the word 'Nature' to include matt and his works his pains and pleasures and on the other the word 'imagination' to include the mysterious exhaltions enveloped in a light that never was on sea or land from the immaterial world which sometimes as in the case of Kubla Khan [...].The beauty of women is there the beauty of water the echo of the wind that is gone and the movment and the colour of the fire ; the beauty of change and something out of the earth and sea and sky and great pitifulness for living things. [...] The object of the fermentation is to remove the mucilginous matter to destroy the vitality of the seeds to give tke requisite colour flavour and aroma to the bean and to procure the easy and fine 'break' of a well-cured cocoa-bean.