Thursday, January 27, 2011

Commonplace Book

'...Doesn't the fact that you & I wd. be ashamed to say "I believe in Capitalism! I will fight for Capitalism!" rather suggest, indicate, and imply that Capitalism is right? For isn't it true that all the things that "thinking" people and "just" people and "moral" people have been ashamed of confessing have always been what is called sometimes a Law of Nature, sometimes Nature's Little Way; but more often (just rudely and bluntly) "the bloody Truth!"'

from a letter dated November 28th, 1939 in Letters to Louis Wilkinson 1935-1956 by John Cowper Powys

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