The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. - Russell Kirk

Patriotic listeners to Radio Awala are further directed to discount all superstitious whispers that M'Rundu's magical powers caused units of the People's Army to disperse in panic, east of Fort Swaha. The truth of the matter is this: M'Rundu is hundreds of miles distant, at Haggat, and any claim that he can appear in two places simultaneously are grossly contrary to scientific teaching. Several sorcerers much more adept than M'Rundu belong to the Progressive party, and are pitting all their talents, for the sake of the people's democracy, against M'Rundu's obscene magic.

These men were not servants, but masters; not the agents of community, but seekers after divine love and wisdom. They undertook their work with high consecration. And the academy or the university was a place consecrated to the apprehension of an order more than human and a duty more than mundane.

In politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man's petty private rationality.