the typically learned theologian of the older time,
and far more of true religious feeling.

The old assumption was that you could not believe
your religion if you discussed it, nor be loyal to your
church if you took any step to protect it from error.
The new assumption is that you cannot believe in your
country's cause if you discuss it, nor protect your
State if you attempt to understand its policy. We
are told if we run the foreign affairs of our country
as we run its other affairs normally, by public discus-
sion, we shall make an end to the success which has
marked the secret management of foreign affairs
by experts in the past. Well, if the outcome that we
are now witnessing, is the efficiency that marks se-
crecy and the expert, there are some of us who feel
half disposed to risk the inefficiency of the common
man. In any case, even if the management of for-
eign affairs by the methods of our home politics does
produce the same result as at present, we shall at
least go to the slaughter with our eyes open and
having had some part in choosing our fate. As it
is we have had no choice. It may be the "efficient"
way; but it does not happen to leave us free men.

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