LUST OF POWER
NO CHANGE IN MANKIND. Events in Germany prove that mankind has not changed very much since Tacitus asserted that “Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions,’ says “Atticus,” writing in the “Sunday Times.” The hunger of authority over one’s fellows is still one of the strongest passions in men. The man who has once wielded power is 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. Earl Baldwin’s eyes are on his books, but his soul goes marching on through the lobbies of Westminster. Even in Russia, where the path to glory leads so 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 April 1938, Page 2
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