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keen natural aptitude, exceptional opportunities, and freedom from the preoccupations of bread-winning, what are we to expect from the parliament man to whom political science is as remote and distasteful as the differential calculus, and to whom such an elementary but vital point as the law of economic rent is a pons asinorum never to be approached, much less crossed?  Or from the common voter who is mostly so hard at work all day earning a living that he cannot keep awake for five minutes over a book?




In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters:  it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.  It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself.  This may or may not be true:  what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.  Therefore, if you want to see a cat clean, you throw a bucket of mud over it, when it will immediately take extraordinary pains to lick the mud off, and finally be cleaner than it was before.  In the same way doctors who are up-to-date (Burge-Lubin per cent of all the registered practitioners, and 20 per cent of the unregistered ones), when they want to rid you of a disease or a symptom, inoculate you with that disease or give you a drug that produces that symptom, in order to provoke you to resist it as the mud provokes the cat to wash itself.

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