LUST OF POWER
MOST FLAGRANT OF ALL THE PASSIONS F
• Events in Germany prove that man- { ’ kind has not changed very much since j Tacitus asserted that “Lust of power j i is the most flagrant of all the passions,”! j says “Atticus,” writing in the “Sunday I {Times.” The hunger for auth-; | ity over one’s fellows is still one of j ; the strongest passions in men. The j ( man who has once wielded power is I rarely happy when he has surrendered ! it to another or had it torn from his \ hands. Mr Lloyd George haunts the stage door wondering whether he will be called again some day to play the gruelling role of Caesar. Ear] Baldwin’s eyes are on his books, but his soul goes marching on through the lob- i bies of Westminster. Even in Russia,! where the path of glory leads so j abruptly to the grave, there appears to be an endless supply of targets for the Soviet bullets. Neither death, disaster nor oblivion can keep men from courting the embrace of power.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 4
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