Originally Posted by mordwyr

So, trust God. When you're in your garden and your mother tells you not to do a certain thing, a good child obeys without question. And then perhaps he gets an explanation.

"Stop!!" the mother screams, running toward the child.

The obedient child immediately stops.

The mother comes over and snatches the child up, and in that moment the child sees the snake slithering in the grass.

The disobedient child doesn't trust his mother, doesn't listen to his mother, and gets bitten.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.