Building anempire, preparing a fresh stage in the history of humanity, had noappeal for them. They were mostly everyday, toiling people, full ofsmall personal solicitudes, and they came to my meetings, I think, verylargely as a relaxation. This stuff was not relaxing. They did not thinkpolitics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kindof dog-fight.
He wasastonished that for a moment he could have forgotten that he was vowedto the splendid life."Continence by preoccupation;" he... read more