110 THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER 



ments ruled by lawyers, politicians, financiers and 

 administrators of the modern official type is a prospect 

 as appalling as the handing over of civilisation to the 

 Hun. But in the modern world the community 

 somehow must contrive to rule through its creative 

 elements, rather than to allow the non-creative 

 elements to rule the creative. Everything comes 

 back to the unsolved problem of how to purify and 

 strengthen the moral and ethical standards of the 

 official classes, which have been so sadly perverted 

 by their peculiar system of education, in order to 

 make them conform more nearly to the standards 

 of conduct and honesty entertained by the majority 

 of ordinary respectable and benevolent people.] 



