But more than this.
He insists that the one hope for our distracted world of to-day lies in the strength and wisdom of the few, not in the organised unwisdom of the many.

The masses of the people can never be safely trusted to solve for themselves the intricate problems of their own welfare.

They need to be guided, disciplined, at times even driven, by those great leaders of men, who see more deeply than they see into the reality of things, and know much better than they can ever know what is good for them, and how that good is to be attained.

Political machinery, in which the modern world had come to put so much faith, is only another delusion of a mechanical age.

The burden of history is for him always the need of the Able Man.