By Evelyn Waugh. Obviously this is a joke. People will be fools, he seems to be saying, and, moreover, most people get their own way regardless of how destructive their way may be.
People can and do rationalize anything.
This, surely, is Evelyn Waugh' s feeling. Mr. Waugh is economical in writing. He knows how to get a person or a situation down in a few words. There is the first story of the lunatic, confined for years because he once committed murder. A well-meaning young woman, just a bit sentimental, obtains his release.