Owing to its eternal compromises, the kind of gradual, peaceful 
political development that takes place in England gives rise to a 
situation full of contradictions; because of its overwhelming 
advantages this situation can be practically tolerated within certain 
limits, but its logical absurdities cause much anguish to the 
thinking mind. Hence, the need of all “state-supporting” parties 
for a theoretical cloak, a justification, which, naturally, can be 
provided only through sophisms, distortions, and enfin by dubious 
tricks. Thus, a literature is being cultivated in the political field 
that repeats all the wretched hypocrisy and untruthfulness of 
theological apologetics, and which also transplants the theological 
intellectual vices to a mundane soil. Thus the soil of the specific 
liberal hypocrisy is fertilised, sown and cultivated by the Conserva- 
tives themselves. And thus is theological apologetics offered an 
argument, produced by ordinary minds, which it lacks in other 
lands. What of it if the facts related in the gospel and the dogmas 
preached in the New Testament in general contradict each other? 
Does that make them untrue? The English Constitution contains 
many more inconsistencies and constantly contradicts itself, but 
continues to exist and, hence, is true! 


September 12, 1892 


The absence of crises since 1868 is also due to the expansion of 
the world market, which distributes the surplus English, respec- 
tively European, capital in transport investment, etc., throughout the 
world and also among a whole mass of other branches of 


investment. This has made a crisis impossible owing to excessive 
speculation in railways, banking, etc., or in specifically American 
investments, or in Indian trade, but small crises, such as the 
Argentinian,’ have become possible for the past three years. But 
all this proves that a giant crisis is in the making.