How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

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

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.