Organized Christianity Has Always Represented Immortality As

It Is Easy To Prescribe Improvement For Others; It Is Easy To Organize Something, To Institutionalize This Or That, To Pass Laws, Multiply Bureaucratic Agencies, Form Pressure Groups, Start Revolutions, Change Forms Of Government, Tinker At Political Theory. The Fact That These Expedients Have Been Tried Unsuccessfully In Every Conceivable Combination For 6,000 Years Has Not Noticeably Impaired A Credulous Unintelligent Willingness To Keep On Trying Them Again And Again.

The State Always Moves Slowly And Grudgingly Towards Any Purpose That Accrues To Society's Advantage, But Moves Rapidly And With Alacrity Towards One That Accrues To Its Own Advantage; Nor Does It Ever Move Towards Social Purposes On Its Own Initiative, But Only Under Heavy Pressure, While Its Motion Towards Anti-social Purposes Is Self-sprung.

Considering Mankind's Indifference To Freedom, Their Easy Gullibility And Their Facile Response To Conditioning, One Might Very Plausibly Argue That Collectivism Is The Political Mode Best Suited To Their Disposition And Their Capacities. Under Its Regime, The Citizen, Like The Soldier, Is Relieved Of The Burden Of Initiative And Is Divested Of All Responsibility, Save For Doing As He Is Told.

It Is Interesting To Observe That In The Year 1935 The Average Individual's Incurious Attitude Towards The Phenomenon Of The State Is Precisely What His Attitude Was Toward The Phenomenon Of The Church In The Year, Say, 1500. It Does Not Appear To Have Occurred To The Church-citizen Of That Day, Any More Than It Occurs To The State-citizen Of The Present, To Ask What Sort Of Institution It Was That Claimed His Allegiance.

We Have Two Distinct Types Of Political Organization To Take Into Account; And Clearly, Too, When Their Origins Are Considered, It Is Impossible To Make Out That The One Is A Mere Perversion Of The Other. Therefore When We Include Both Types Under A General Term Like Government, We Get Into Logical Difficulties; Difficulties Of Which Most Writers On The Subject Have Been More Or Less Vaguely Aware, But Which, Until Within The Last Half-century, None Of Them Has Tried To Resolve.