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… “But let us suppose a stateman were to put his nation in the position
of having to pursue ‘grand politics’ though it were ill equipped to do so.”
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“Or worse, suppose he forced his nation to politicise when it had otherwise
better things to do…”
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“Would we call such a statesman great?”
*
“Undoubtedly, else he would not have been able to achieve such a feat.
He may have been mad to attempt it but perhaps all greatness starts out as madness.”
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Sue Vincent is a Yorkshire-born writer and one of the Directors of
The Silent Eye, a modern Mystery School. She writes alone and with
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