Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.