"UTOPIA" AND "THE PRINCE"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 8

"UTOPIA" AND "THE PRINCE"

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Your leading article hereon in Saturday's "Post"' contains such excellent material for finding a basis of a national policy that I heartily .commend it to our politicians, patriots, business men, and workers for their! careful study. As a nation we can- j not afford to stand irresolute even from fear of being beheaded like More, I between the choice of "Utopian" and ' "Machiavellian" ways, as no man can serve two masters successfully, and a house or a party divided against itself, cannot stand. If we believe in the British ways that are founded on the teachings of the Bible, as all our legal and social institutions show, and the Great Charter of Liberties confirms, then we already have our ideal or Utopia determined for us that we are bound to make, good.. Mr. Stanley Baldwin meant this when he quoted, "Magna Carta est lex, Deinde caveat rex" (the .Magna Carta is law, henceforth let the ruler look out). Our politicians in belabouring one another are merely using their powers for their own party and political gains, when they ought' rather to bo reconciling their petty differences' in favour of the larger social problems. Of course if a" Machiavelli ruled in Utopia, one can quite imagine the turmoil there would be, equal to what it is in the world at the present time, until matters become readjusted. As a nation we ought first1 to'"give to" God that which is due to God, and to Caesar that which is'due to Caesar."— ■I am, etc., •.••'•'.

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