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harness to the job this type of mind and char-acter and temperament, it can never be putthrough—for it is a task of immense practi-cal complexity and intellectual difficulty. Wemust recruit our revolutionaries, therefore, fromthe Right, not from the Left. We must per-suade the type of man whom it now amuses tocreate a great business, that there lie waitingfor him yet bigger things which will amuse himmore. This is Clissold’s “Open Conspiracy.”Clissold’s direction is to the Left—far, far tothe Left; but he seeks to summon from theRight the creative force and the constructivewill which is to carry him there. He describeshimself as being temperamentally and funda-mentally a Liberal . But political Liberalismmust die “to be born again with firmer featuresand a clearer will.”

Clissold is expressing a reaction against theSocialist Party which very many feel, includingSocialists . The remoulding of the world needsthe touch of the creative Brahma . But at pre-sent Brahma is serving Science and Business,not Politics or Government. The extreme dan-ger of the world is, in Clissold’s words, lest,“before the creative Brahma can get to work,Siva, in other words the passionate destructive-ness of Labour awakening to its now needlesslimitations and privations, may make Brahma ’stask impossible.” We all feel this, I think.We know that we need urgently to create amilieu in which Brahma can get to work beforeit is too late. Up to a point, therefore, most