Evening star., 1941-08-29


ton and misery, it is blasting
windows into minds as well as
glass into the streets. 1t is caus-
ing things to be done that the
intelligence of the few long ago
recommended, but that never
would have been done had not
imagination and intelligence be-
come welded by a shotgun mar
riage to the ultimate necessity
survival.
What 1t Is Doing.
To take few examples: 1t Is
decentralizing industry, breaking
up cities, deconcentrating popu-
lations. 1t is conjoining the edu-
cation of children with their care
and feeding. 1t is forcing a rad
ical and universal reconsidera-
ton of dietary habits. 1t is COM
pelling the elimination of that
waste in materials and energy
that comes from the cooking of
10000, 900 meals three times a
day in 100000 separate homes.
1t is destroying the social para
site, who lives by levies on and
interVentions in the productive
system, and is absorbing him as
a person into genuine creative
or conserving activity. 1t is well
coming fresher and younger
blood from all classes into the
Offices of the state. 1t is shat
tering a financial system that
keeps production bound and
gagged. 1t is cultivating the hu-
man body. 1t is releasing the
hitherto hardly tapped energies
and emotions of women into
grandiose social organization and
service.
1t is making the scientist into
priest and the priest into a min
lister. 1t is reclaiming agriculture.
1t Is revivifying and democratiz-
ing the interest in books, music
and real culture. 1t is enforcing
more solitude as we'll as more
social cooperation.
1t is compelling radical read
Justments in the relations be-
tween management and labor. 1t
is fostering courtesy and the
most intimate friendliness be-
tween classes. 1t is humanizing
work by making all work serve
essential social purposes. 1t is
creating a freedom based upon
obligations as we'll as rights. 1t
is rediScovering poetry, chivalry
and heroism.
1t is democratizing the aristo-
crat and ennobling the democrat.
1t is restoring the basic meaning
of the word virtue, as manliness
in the humane sense rather than
masculinity in the physical sense.
Releases Soul and Mind.
In short, this war that has
Scared the face of every British
city is releasing the British mind
and soul and is bringing about
the Anglo-SaXon revolution of
humanism, socialism and free
dom. Or, if you like, of fratern-
ity, equality and liberty-but in
this order, and not the other way
around.
1t is creating the synthesis be-
tween socialism and private en-
terprise, between the state and
the free instruments of society,
between the aristocratic and
democratic spirit, between ma
tionaliSm and internationalism.
And this revolution is occurring
with the collaboration of men and
women of every country Of
Europe, gathered in the British
Isles as in gigantic Noahs
Ark-Slavs from all the Eastern
nations, Greeks and Frenchmen,
emigre Spaniards, Jews of course,
even a few "Aryan" Germans,
together with a constant flow Of
contacts between itself and the
United States and now between
itself and the Soviet Union. The
Anglo-Saxon revolution proceed
ing in evolutionary form, without
theology, with the bloodshed all
caused by external enemies-a
revolution that transcends and
breaks down classes-is also a