"... for the divine right to deceive mankind-between the Dutch Jew Ricardo and the German Jew Marx."

"And before the menace of a real challenge to the system-the challenge that has come in our day from President Roosevelt-even the family quarrel is forgotten, and the finance ridden Western European countries and Communist Moscow come easily together. For in a way "Marx does more than Malthus can to justify Mammon's ways to Man."

"For the very determinism of Marx, which sought to prove that the post-capitalist society must necessarily be communist, was compelled equally to argue that the pre-communist society had necessarily to be capitalist. And, therefore, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848 Marx, so far from underrating the achievements of capitalism, grossly exaggerated them. Its great achievement, according to him, was that" it has rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life."

"Now every tradition of our race stands in opposition to the whole insolent plan for rearranging the poor and refuses to take sides either with Ricardo and his claim that the capitalist shall not be interfered with by the commissar, or with Marx and his claim that the commissar shall not be interfered with by the capitalist. To most of us these old bourgeois notions, so drastically to be rooted out, are utterly fundamental to human nature. Even if they be not so, at least men have held them for a very long time-so much so that the possession of them is an integral part of what we mean by a man-so much so that. when the Marxians propose to produce a man who is quite innocent of them they are in reality proposing to produce a new animal."

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"But suppose the Marxians to be right. Is it not clear that they lay them- selves open to a devastating answer from the defenders of the old financial system? .. Oh," says the ghost of Malthus with a smile, "if we can produce a new race of men, why then is it necessary to have a revolution with all its inconveniences? Instead of producing a communist race which is happy under communism, why not produce a slave race which is happy under capitalism? While we are "conditioning away" God and the family, why not .. condition away" the sense of justice and the sense of equality, the love of children, and the yearning for a merry life as well? The only possible objection to my schemes was that the poor would not stand them. Why not breed a race of poor that will stand them ? "

"No one used to be more ready than the Malthusians with pompous lectures to the poor on the inevitable retribution which would follow upon their enjoyment of temporary and "artificial" prosperity. But the very strength of Malthus's language used to rob his followers of the right to use such language. If there had been a chance of enduring happiness, it might have been wise to have restrained oneself in order to enjoy it. But, if .. the almost constant action of misery" is our inevitable lot, we might as well make hay while the sun shines, being very certain that it will never shine again; break into the lord's cellar and rob and rape and get gloriously drunk to-night, since it is the only night that we shall have. And now at the eleventh hour Marx has come along and set Malthus's argument on its legs again. He will breed Malthus a race that will not be miserable in misery."

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"It was not Herr Hitler nor Signor Mussolini but Queen Victoria who wrote.s .. It is natural that every one should have their own opinion, especially on religion, but, when the policy of Great Britain comes into considera- tion . . . all private feelings should be overruled." The Nonconformists had in their blood no traditions against usury. The Catholic Church was in a yet sadder and more curious case."

Napoleon was by no means a pious Christian or Catholic for that matter but Hollis writes that he CHALLENGED, above-all, usury.

"...the society for which he fought was a Christian society; the society which conquered him, if ever such a word may be used of any society, anti-Christian. It was a society, whose very fundament was usury. the eternal enemy of the Christian faith. The memory of Napoleon lived on as a dream in the minds of the poor. .. Long, long will they tell of him under the thatched roof. In fifty years the humble dwelling will know no other history. Children, through this village I saw him ride, And Kings followed him."

"That dream was in truth the immemorial dream of Christian freedom. Yet most unfortunately in the course of the struggle Napoleon fell into a quarrel with Pope Pius VII concerning the Papal States and treated him with great lack of proper respect and personal consideration. It is the unfortunate but clearly all but inevitable weakness of priests when they come into contact with the affairs of laymen, that their lack of experience is likely to cause them to judge these affairs in a simple-minded fashion."

"For fifty years after Waterloo Papal policy was directed by pious and simple men. They preached sincerely the Church's doctrine against usury, but they did nothing to oppose the usurers, because in their innocence of the world they did not know that they were usurers."

"Deluded by the trick of the new masters, who cleverly used the phrase .. private property", they thought that in defending property in the Ricardian sense they were defending it in the Thomistic sense. But in truth the two doctrines of property had nothing at all in common. .. Man should not consider his outward possessions as his own," St. Thomas had taught, .. but as common to all, so as to share them without difficulty when others are in need."

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".. Every man has a right to do what he will with his own," answered Malthus 3-in flat contradiction. And to Althorp the exercise of charity was not only not obligatory; it was not possible."

"...dismissed religion contemptuously as the mere handmaid of the governing class-" the opium of the poor." Yet even such a phrase contained, as Mr. Chesterton has acutely pointed out, the refutation of his whole theory of economic determinism, For it means, if it means anything, that the proletariat refrains from revolt because it has been taught a lot of foolish tales about morality. Whether the tales be foolish or not is nothing to this immediate argument. What is important is Marx's admission that their conduct is influenced by such tales-by motives, that is, that are not at all economic."

"Thus it came about that, allowing no place for that part of Man's nature that makes him mostly truly Man, both the Liberal and the Communist made of their disciples stunted, uncertain creatures, doomed for ever to proclaim a lack of faith that it is not truly within human capacity to feel."

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"Now, if it was two Jews, their minds confused with bogus Whig history, who were most largely responsible for im- posing this desiccation upon mankind, it was a third Jew who saw most clearly the folly of it. Disraeli had the gift, more than any of his contemporaries, of putting himself outside the accidents of his age and of the country in which he lived."

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"We often tell one another that the Jew, as an alien, stands outside our Christian culture. And so he does. But he stands, too, outside all those elements in our culture that are most flagrantly opposed to Christianity. To a Jew the whole conception of a gentleman is unintelligible- a conception, comic if he be of a cornedic turn, and, if he be serious-minded, almost blasphemous. To a Jew the very stuff of life is the binding force of a common faith and a common race. That a man should think himself to be of a different kind from others of his own race is to a Jew but the plainest nonsense."

"I do not think that Disraeli was ever himself a Christian. But even where he had not the faith to believe he had not the folly to despise. He was a a highly intelligent man, and he did understand one simple and all-important historical truth, which even to-day is not sufficiently understood. He did understand that for three hundred years the poor of England had been driven down and down and down, that in his own day the rot had at last been stopped and that the force that had stopped it was the force of Christianity. There were, of course, then, as there still are, millions of professing Christians, who, through ignorance or indolence or bemusement at the sophistries of the economists, had played no part in the battle against Christianity's enemy."

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"Jews have been the world's usurers, but they have only practised usury when, like the Rothschilds and the Ricardos, they have been aliens in a society which they wished to destroy. They have always known that usury does certainly destroy a society. No Jew has ever fallen into the foolish carelessness of so many silly Christians who think that it does not greatly matter whether usury be tolerated or not. Where a Jew is a friend of a society, he will wish to save it from that which will eat it up. And Disraeli, though not an Englishman, was yet the friend of England. her grateful guest."