The Henson Journals

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Thursday, September 10th, 1925.

No longer I complain

That knowledge brings no joy,

That all the art I gain

Is cunning to destroy.

Destroyers, we create;

Creating, we undo.

All things that have been great

Out of destruction grew.

These sinister lines are placed, not unfitly at the beginning of G. D. H. Cole's sinister book, 'Labour in the Commonwealth, A Book for the Younger Generation'. I wasted the day in reading through this precious production. It is a sophisticated plea for the class–war. The author was a Fellow of Magdalen, yet he doesn't scruple to excuse the abject folly which advocates "class education". There can be no doubt that this poisonous doctrine is spreading. Yesterday, the Trade–Union Conference adopted a resolution affirming the theory of Communism. The much–vaunted good–sense of English working–men has not been apparent lately.

Bainbridge, formerly precentor of Westminster Abbey, & his wife, called & had tea.

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