Saturday, March 14
“ Was our society, which had always been so assured of its superiority and rectitude, so confident of its unexamined premisses, — was our society assembled round anything more permanent than a congeries of banks, insurance companies and industries, and had it any beliefs more essential than a belief in compound interest and the maintenance of dividends?
• T. S. Eliot in The Idea of a Christian Society, 1939
