Evening star., 1939-01-21

crate and sustained, finding its
expression in a progressive organiza-
ton of science, progressive extern
sion of the scientific method to
human affairs and the systematic
establishment of q new education
new order and a new regime OF
law. The two strands co-operated
at first In their attack upon their
common objective, the old order of
things. 1t was not at first evident
that while one aimed to destroy, the
other sought to replace. 1t was not
necessary at first that it should be-
come evident. Together these two
allied contraries produced the World
Revolution, which had not so much
been evoked by the Group as found
Its center of expression therein.
Long after the formal defeat of
the decadent old order was manifest,
long after the obsolete boundaries,
the antiquated foreign offices, the
armies and navieS, monetary manip-
ulatlon and the unconscionable ap-
preparations of private ownership in
collective businesses had been swept
away, Rud's intense fear of reaction
and revenge enabled Bodisham to
maintain his argument that the
only sane barrier against counter
revolution was the establishment of
a satisfactory working new order in
the place of the old. To Rud the
new institutions were essentially
1ortlf1catlons against the old.
Arbitrary Caesarism.
He did not see them as collective
organizations imposing fresh codes
OF behavior and necessitating an
education of their own. So, para
doxically enough. Rud, this power
snatching. essential rebel, this in
stinctive laWless grabber this un-
soclallzed egotiSt, sustained the
forces Of constructive control on
earth through their early years of
growth, while Bodisham imple-
mented and co-ordinated them and
protected them from any serious
release of the destructive instinct
in Rud Concurrently and, as it
came to seem in the retrospect,
naturally and necessarily, there
grew up an untrammeled anG ar
bltrary CeasariSm in which political
power became increasingly concen-
trated, while beside it and inter-
woven with it, there arose a world
system of production, distribution,
transport, education and biological
control, the living body of that
planetary civilization which the new
material conditions demanded.
To many it seemed like the COM
plete confirmation of Hobbies
Leviathan. the ultimate realization
OF autocratic efficiency on scale
altogether more gigantic than
Hobbies could have foreseen. To
others it seemed a necessary phase
that had to come to an end through
the casting-off of autocracy, as an
eagle breaks out of its egg. The
idea that absolutism might be the
necessary way to the world republic
had been floating in mems minds
long before the last war to end
war and the rise of the group to
power. Young Dick Carstall had
foreshadowed it long ago when he
talked with his father about his
own outlook on life.
The full quality of Bodishams S
genius only became apparent after
his death Released from his subtle
lnterventions, the two revolutionary
strands began to part company
forthwith. Then, as young Carstall
had foreseen. it began to dawn
upon intelligent observers through
out the world, that the spirit of
INSTRUMENTATION and responsibility
which leads through ascending
phases of laWlessness and violence
to laWlesS personal rule Is, by its
very nature, doomed to an ultimate
grapple with growing system of
law, order and economic justice and
sanity. For years Bodisham had
been staving off that conflict. His
untimely death left Rud, a little
heavier, less active and quick -witted,
soaked now in preposterous f1attery
and very much under the sway of
Thirp, as the sole actual controller
and intermediary of still very
loosely knitted network of world
ministries. That young heir of the
ages, the new world state, suddenly
found itsef under the guardianship
of quite different uncle. 1t was
confronted with the problem of
the liberator become tyrant.
Undisguised Dismay.
Norvel, who was probably, after
Bodisham, the most powerful and
energetic intelligence in the group,
contemplated the new situation with
undisguised dismay. He was al
ready in conflict with Quinlan and
Thirp upon the question of the ex-
tensive use of his educational and
publicity services for the propa-
ganda Of Rud-Worship. Bodisham's s
interposition had damped down the
tension but now he would have to
deal with these self-appointed slaves
and masters of Caesar directly, and
come sooner or later into open con-
f1ict with the master himself. He
hated and dreaded the issue to
which he was being drawn, the issue
of the balanced and deliberate man
face to face with lop-sided energy.
He reproached himself for his &C
quiescense in the development of
this cant of the master director, be-
side which the cants of personal
devotion to Hitler. Mussolini, Stain
and God save the-King- whoever
-he-is of his boyhood, seemed toler-
able affectations. The ennobled por-
traits of Rud now decorated every
community center from pole to pole,
the children Of new generation
were being trained to servile sa-
lutte OF the supreme figure, they were
being assured of his love and wis
dom, there were endless songs,
hymns rather, sung in his honor.
Usually the schools began work in
the morning with something very
like an opening prayer to Rud and