ABSTRACT
The control of political and legal machinery requires the manipulation of moral and intellectual forces so as to create a public opinion and habits of thought and sentiment favourable to it. The selfish business-man is neither clever enough nor unscrupulous enough to invent and arrange all the elaborate political, moral and intellectual apparatus of the reactionary alliance. There is a general understanding that many of these men push their way into political prominence in order to get lucrative offices or professional business, and that they apply the practised arts of the hired partisan to the vitiation of wholesome debate. That legal skill is needed for the drafting and the criticism of legislative proposals is indubitable. Political philosophers build up theories of the absolutism of the State in its relation to other States or to its subjects.
