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Cecil John Rhodes believed in a master race. He got mad whenever he thought about how pudding-headed George III and his pig-headed advisers had split that race. The money Rhodes made digging diamonds and empire-building in South Africa he left for Oxford-to unite Britain and the U.S. (Germany was added, as an afterthought) as the leaders of a world at peace. He thought Rhodes scholarships would turn the trick in a century...
...Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
...find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...book, he upholds the Roman thesis that national unity must rest on the inescapable "reality" of society's division into "the rich and the poor, the illustrious and the nameless, the creative . . . and the vulgar." Each of these twins should have rights; but neither have the right to split the state...
Precisely this fatal split occurs, says Ortega, when the faith that has given rich & poor a common belief grows old and dies. It is then that the philosopher must supply the world with a belief that will be both inspiring and practical enough to restore its faith in human cooperation...