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Excerpt from Towards a New World: Being the Reconstruction Programme of the British Labor Party; Together With an Introductory Article by Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Leader of the Party, and a Manifesto to the Labor Movement From the English Fellowship of Reconciliation
Still more may we fear sometimes that the problems of reconstruction will be handled by men too impatient to think things through, too tired and cynical to respond to the glowing faith in a finer future for the world which now inspires the multitudes of common people who have striven so heroically and suffered so patiently during the war. For national leadership to fall into the hands of such men in the great new days upon which we shall pres ently enter would be a disaster almost as great as the war itself.
If there could be anything worse than an empiric in control of State policy when peace comes, it would be the in?uence of a cynic upon the splendid enthusiasm and revolutionary ardor of democracy, newly awakened to a consciousness of its power and eager to build a better future for mankind.
The outstanding fact of world politics at the present time - and when peace comes this fact will be made more clear - is that a great tide of revolutionary feeling is rising in every country. Everywhere the peoples are becoming conscious of power. They are beginning to sit in judg ment upon their rulers. They are beginning to ask ques tions about the policies that have brought the world to the edge of secular ruin.
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