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The Business of Finance by Hartley Withers

April 19, 2010

INTRODUCTORY

Mankind is now suffering from a raging fever, due to an ill ordered life and an overheating diet. It knows that it is going to get well again some day and in the lucid intervals of its malady it is making up its mind that this sort of thing is never going to happen again. The bad or stupid rulers who have brought it to such a pass are going to be requested to retire (this process has begun in Russia, but
much more has to be done and in many countries) ; the world is going to be governed more sensibly, and with a clearer view of the appalling disasters to which man is liable owing to the devilish success with which he has perfected the means of destruction, unless his tendency to mutual destruction is exercised and chastened into brotherly good-
will. Moreover the revelation of man’s power, which his ingenuity in destruction has given us, is going to be made use of, when once this fitful fever is overpast, for productive and constructive achievements such as have never yet been imagined. Better still, man is not only going to be better governed by his rulers and leaders. He is going to learn to govern himself better. For the war is showing us that the real strength of a nation is the strength and health and intelligence and sense of national duty of its individual citizens. It has brought home to the members of the nations in it, as nothing ever did before, that every man and woman counts and that it is the duty of each one to be as well fitted as possible in mind and body to play a part well in life’s drama. The big fellows mouth and strut before the footlights, but it is the crowd at the back of the stage, with no “speaking part,” that produces the real effect. In short, war has shown us how tremendous is man’s power over nature, how prodigiously he has wasted it, what miracles he can accomplish if he makes good use of it, and finally that he cannot attempt to do so until he has improved his power over himself and learnt to keep himself in order.

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