If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.