Capitolo 90
They is indeed. Still I doubt if the without imaginations would have completely
them expectations: the things that they foresees are less true and possible. But
they exhorts against every reform such objections as me I have parodied; and
they exhort far them to them on the matters of less vital importance. The existing one
system exists; they knows his/her abuses, his/her controls and his/her box-controls.
The system of the future doesn't exist yet; and they cannot imagine as
his/her the difficulties of slighter could ever be smoothed far on. They is not
the minima staggered from the appalling reality of the Duke of Westminster
or the Duke of Sutherland; not the minima staggered from the left power
of a conspiracy of coal-owners to paralyse a great nation with the
horrors of a famine of fuel. But them _are_ staggered from their norm that
It is probable that government ownership of earth produces a certain amount of jobbery
and the corruption from official. They think better than Them him that the
dukes and the gentlemen of country should find the whole lease that that the State owes
the most greater part finds him/it of, with the possibility of a percentage that is corruptly
embezzled by the officials that they handle him/it. This show lack of
imagination. It is as if one should tell the employee of one, "All Your
income will be paid in expectancy to the Duke of Westminster, and not to
You, for his you sole use and benefit; because us, Your employers are
afraid that if we give him for us Your salary in person, you can do some of him
is stolen from you or it invested badly." As transparently absurd! We want
our income us, to spend as we arrange. We would risk to lose rather
one for cent. of him in the bad investments that does all is swallowed above from
the dukes and the landlords.
It is the same in everything. Desire of the imagination makes people exaggerate
the difficulties and dangers of every new scheme, because they is not able
constructively paint to them the details of his to work. Men
with great power that paints, as Shelley or Robespierre it is very always