ABSTRACT
Religious convictions are naturally a counterweight to a state power which demands submission, and an anchorage of freedom only if these do not lead to a uniformity of opinion through a worldly power on the part of the Church. Faith and Inviolable convictions are undoubtedly the deepest sources of resistance to the "Almighty State", the strongest counter-weight to Collectivism and the most secure and indispensable guard against servile conformity and cynical opportunism. They comprise the universal values over and above the state, the supra-centralist forces which, like decentralisation, must tend to limit the state, and through their mutual co-operation with devolutionary tendencies will produce a healthy society. There is considerable danger that this continual extension of interventionism and collectivism which is rendering a democratic system more and more difficult to work and increasing the weight of bureaucracy will guide us with sure steps to Leviathan.
