"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”
A.V.H. Hartendorp “Don Pañong – Genius" in Philippine Magazine (September 1929).
BALIW
Christianity and Power Politics (1936)
Context: In the simple and decadent individualism of the Oxford group movement there is no understanding of the fact that the man of power is always to a certain degree an anti-Christ. "All power," said Lord Acton with cynical realism, "corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely." If the man of power were to take a message of absolute honesty and absolute love seriously he would lose his power, or would divest himself of it. This is not to imply that the world can get along without power and that it is not preferable that men of conscience should wield it rather than scoundrels. But if men of power had not only conscience but also something of the gospel's insight into the intricacies of social sin in the world, they would know that they could never extricate themselves completely from the sinfulness of power, even while they were wielding it ostensibly for the common good. (Chapter 29: "Hitler and Buchman")
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3
“But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.”
Canto 1, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
Gilbert Burnet, in Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time (1823), Vol. I, p. 164
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