Travel, Of Course, Narrows The

For Us Humans, Everything Is Permanent - Until It Changes, As We Are Immortal Until We Die

In Politics, As In Womanizing, Failure Is Decisive. It Sheds Its Retrospective Gloom On Earlier Endeavor Which At The Time Seemed Full Of Promise.

Secrecy Is As Essential To Intelligence As Vestments And Incense To A Mass Or Darkness To A Spiritualist Séance And Must At All Times Be Maintained, Quite Irrespective Of Whether Or Not It Serves Any Purpose.

A Ready Means Of Being Cherished By The English Is To Adopt The Simple Expedient Of Living A Long Time. I Have Little Doubt That If, Say, Oscar Wilde Had Lived Into His Nineties, Instead Of Dying In His Forties, He Would Have Been Considered A Benign, Distinguished Figure Suitable To Preside At A School Prize-giving Or To Instruct And Exhort Scout Masters At Their Jamborees. He Might Even Have Been Knighted.

What Is Called Western Civilization Is In An Advanced State Of Decomposition, And Another Dark Ages Will Soon Be Upon Us, If, Indeed, It Has Not Already Begun. With The Media, Especially Television, Governing All Our Lives, As They Indubitably Do, It Is Easily Imaginable That This Might Happen Without Our Noticing...by Accustoming Us To The Gradual Deterioration Of Our Values.