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• BY G. MacLEOD° ROSS -----• way for Bismarck, a Junker with think of human beings as and cohesiveness, while it has
The 'first Baron Coleraine has, a very 'special brand of Naturally civilised. We forget • also been a society in which class
wriconservatism, with which he' that without great criminality in structure was the most elaborate
Cotten a little .....tract__:„ for uprooted 1000 years 'Of German anybody ; we could lose, the and most clearly marked. „ ,
Conservatives called: "For
*1� history .to fashion the German tolerance, the respect for life In England; for exampe,Vthe
C,onserv�tives Only", and
though., intendedrimarily for Env -km -it -1s crystal clear that and personality, which Grp in class; structure which has been
the rejuvenation o of the 'British --"-Hitler and Mussolini were reality the late blossoms of a developed and modified over the
Political Party of that name, it revolutionaries. highly developed civilisation. centuries of English history, is a
cdntains _much sound thinking Woodrow 'Wilson and But as things have' happened, guarantee 'of liberty. Perhaps,' by
-'ch i:. of universal application. Franklin Roosevelt were the• one' by one the. restraints have our hankering after equality', we
who' s " N
If the name Coleraine is most powerful men in the world been removed which tradition are replacing a society in which
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unfamiliar,he is the younger son during the most critical years of imposes on human behaviour,;'• each man hadd a responsibility
of the. late Bonal Law who, for a the ' century. , The former • In consequence, our danger towards his neighbour; a respect
brief period in 1922 w'a -Prime .- fastened_ _ on Europe the lies not in our.inability to face for him; a kind of flux. Now we
dangerously irrelevant principle sudden change, but rather to'arellusy substituting a -class
Minister of England,
Lord Coleraine has spent 20 ' of the "self='det"erminatiop of uphold the standards of conduct strtiegle; a free-for-all of bitterly
years of his life as a Member of peoples•', while the latter, which experience has shown are contesting groups: carpenters;
parliament in the course of believing that British colonialism essential for the wetl:being of w e 1 d e r s , b r i'c k 1 a y d`.r s ,
Pi eater threat to freedom man in society. In this stockbrokers, teachers, airline
diverse .,administrative ities than Russian democracy, made' revolutionary age a conservative" pilots, miners, railwaymen,
as Education, Atom Power, over half of Europe to the attitude is a condition of doctors. Each intent on grasping
.The Foreign Soviets and half the world to survival. from the common stock the
Office,ThWar t)ffice, n anarchy. - FREEDOM OR LICENSE? greatest shate of- what is to be
� etc. The following civilisation went recognise '+.- and understand the
borrows liberally 'from the 1
It is sheer illusion to argue On the one hand we must had. .
t• thi kin of Lord that western c' saTRADIT{ON
which he has indulged in such was a gr
,magma rve n mg. Eolerane's first chapter.; M
back to barbarism because it was frightening propensities- , .of
He starts by asking that very in controL,of backward -looking human nature which have been masthead of "Victory' °t
-~• the men. It was_..not.4,y ,.looked••-- revealed to us in ,our own day, Trafalgar was: "England
pertinent question: What is
relevance of_a'"philosophy of forward with hope and and the importance of --expects....", not "the Nation
which the essence is reverence
unquestioning assurance. That institutions`- to- keep these in expects...." It was the idea of
, Ind for the. past, and which.....bases - was their trouble - and ours. ,,check. On the -other, .there is the "England" . that' defeated
itself on the lessons of belief in freedom and respect for • Napoleon, and as qtr-\meriean
experience in :,the face of . 'a THE COLLAPSE OF the individual who is an historian , Mahler, has recently
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compulsion which seeks to CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY' • uniquely -Valuable being, whose decided after 10 `years of
adjust itself to a revolution of • But history is not the work of interests society exists to serve: research, it was the fact that the
unprecedented violence? The .statesmen alone. It is -made up of The . -• French Revolution Royal Navy in World War': knew,
answers_to such a question are the habits of ordinary men and showed what happened , to one thing above all others: that
...The signal that flew at the
women. •+ Consider what is Freedom and Enlightenment
not easy to find, although_w - - -•
-' through' the babel, the herd can happening today: immaturity, . when they were given their
be heard urging us to turn 'our indiscipline, emotional heads without restraint.: On the
instability in , the -'-'young, other hand the evils, which
backs on the past and to espouse
a policy> which, while accepting _ fatalism, uncertainty, and lack followed from the total
the same outlook
as-
_•- its of confidence in their" elders.- suppression of freedom were .
nl i _ the The collapse of religious , faith -similarly patent' -and the -two had
means it uses -to achieve that tire -breakdown--a-o€. • to- be• -•fused -•-bye the,... enius�-'.of..-
policy. traditional morality. Burke, of whom Lofd Morley
.THE REVOLUTIONARIES
The growing habit of said: "if you 'encourage every
OF THE LAST 70 YEARS 1violence, with its mounting individual to let the imagination
We; who belong to a threat to order and freedom. loose upon all subjects, without
generation which some of Our Can one honestly believe that all - any restraints from a sense of his
more vocal and violent juniors this is , due , to the crippling , own , weakness and his.
influence of tradition? subordinate role in the scheme
would __label as retrograde,'To believe that change, is all of things, then' there is nothing
stodgy, set, and steeped in that . is needed to remodel at ..all that the opinion of the
tradition;, we have the
society is to forget that it is not ages has agreed to regard as
unmitigated benefit that we can
look back and reflect on that ` an inanimate house, but human excellent and venerable, which
most thrilling era through which beings; that human, nature, would not be exposed tto
we have lived. Who among us handled too roughly, will find at the hand of
can be sure the past has nothing ways to take its revenge. The ratk nalistic criticism."
problem is not simply to change We, in our day, have ,
to teach him? Do those who
society'.and its institutions, but .witnessed horror's - that would
clairn'to be so progressive realise
to change them in such'a •way, as ,LL,havo -appalled Robespierre and
what a drop' there has been in ,
the ,'ti standards of,-„_ human to hold in check mans instinct Marat, 'for there is similarity
behaviour, to standards: which for aggression aid to support, enough between the Terror, and
not to weaken,, his capacity for the Concentration' Camp; the
would have been 'unthinkable in
therSnmmer of 1914, or for that " development. The greatest guillotine and the_gas-chamber;..
Matter, the summer of 1814. • contribution which conservatism the storming of tire Bastille and
That distinguished American has to •Make in a changing world the student rioting' at the
$tatesmar�� Dean Acheson *2 , is to remind us that man is a So bonne, or' at Berkeley, or at
.
has described the 'years before • suptemely valuable being in his Sir George Williams, to point
1914 thus: "The world was
own_ right, and that he cannot be •Burke's moral that 1 when he
_
-_.. stable and predictable --During utilised, as e9nyenient raw relies.......on his own - unaided
the hundred years after material for the social reformer. judgement, without the restraint
- Twentieth-c-entury'.'man feels of tradition and the accumulated
Waterloo, Englishmen and •>,.:�
Americans believed themselves himself in especial degree to be experience of the past, an
moving , on great-
the current of :.at the'mercy of his. environment becomes less' attractive that _he
progress to the reign of universal and powerless td...control,._.:or - othe carnivores and no more to,`74
---peace and universal law...For a ' influence it,- and it is this feeling ' be trilsted than they.
•of helplessness and Iack of The fact that tradition cannot •
hundred: years international war•
confidence, which distinguishes be explained does not mean that ;
had been held to a minimum; ..
economic and technical progress Western man from his forbears. it, is unreasonable. It may only
in the century, then just ending; And yet this environment is his mean that we have -forgotten the
had exceeded' that of the whole '
own atrefact; and the . threat of reason. The Turkish farmer
prior history of man, and _-the _ his own self-will. Before he, can leaves the stones oh- • his
existence orane world had been master
' his environment he must cultivated fields. The Hanipshire
_master himself, and this is where farmer. a grows the , best
achieved as never before or •
�
since. ' People, goods, ideas, tradition, with its Tong reach strawbefYres on stones. , The
moved about with an unequalled tack .to the accumulated reason why has been "forgotten, ,
freedom and the live .ofpeople experience of mankind, carwhelp' while the"' practice- -remains .to..,,.
Awa ,r, hint , when nothing else can. produce the best. results, as was
eve where were moulded b` a
n _ - --- . - .• r .., ape: :,.-ean-.. _never.....,.displace._ proven._ .when.. sonie United
gigantic world-wicl'e scr the __ tradition as a protection from •Nations agronomists persuaded
Looking back over the past the excesses of human nature. some young Turks q•re nave tie
70. ' years, , ' hove did . the rt. e detnmetit of their
how rhuc _. we
�. The ast•••si t ears teach us stoned,
fare? How successful were they
eonte•m•porary .:., •Young Turks p Y Y
need that crops.
in their avowed intention_ to
build a new Jerusalem? The
Concert of Europe and the
Monroe Doctrine ensured, at •
least, -:that disomic was kePt•_
within bounds, largely liecause-
there was no one whose interest
it was to promote disorder.
1Przdence-and'-common sense
were ietlough to maintain the
genera. equilibrium. But most
young" people believe that the
•sickness • froth Which we suffer
today was due to -the inflexible
,conservatism of arose "inA
control", all , of whom had an
aversion /to ; ' any kind of
innovation. It was this^condition
of mind which caused the stages
of the collapse.
From `--Sedan to m'Agadir;
through the Somn4e and Verdun
to Versailles and the Rhinela d;
Munich and Yal.tt And while e
can agree that Louis Napoleon
ear °'be said ,10 have cleared the
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a way an anomaly with -which to -
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