but he attends church regularly because he sees the importance of organized religion
for the maintenance of sound morality among the lower orders,
and because he dislikes the skepticism and materialism of radical teachers.
His genuine passions are for literature and the philosophy of science
and he would gladly spend all his time in studying them.
But the plight of the world compels his unwilling attention,
and when he sees that human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos
and destroy the most glorious civilization which the worlds has destroyed,
he feels that it is high time for men of good sense and good will
to intervene and to take politics out of the hands of the plutocrats of the Right
and the woolly-minded idealists of the Left.
Since he and his kind are the only representatives of decency combined with intelligence,
they must step down into the arena and save the masses for themselves.
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